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backing, patronage, sanction, countenance; sustainment, upholding, maintenance, upkeep; improvement, strengthening, development, build-up; amendment, betterment, up-grading, amelioration; enrichment, fattening, enhancement; increase, increment, gain, addition, augmentation, contribution.
3. help, aid, abetment, abettal, succor, relief, assistance, a hand; facilitation, enabling, clearing the way for; good deed, benefaction, Archaic, benefit, service; fosterage, cultivation, nourishment, nurturing, caring for, nursing along, ministering.
4. presentation, proposal, submittal, recommendation, advocacy, espousal; introduction, bringing up, calling attention to, bringing to mind.
5. advertising, publicity, Inf. fanfare, publication, broadcasting; heralding, trumpeting, ballyhooing; propaganda, puffery, Inf. hype, Inf. promo, hard sell, pushing, Inf plugging; circulation, circularization, distribution, propagation, dissemination, dispersal, dispersion.
6. advertisement, blurb, announcement, statement, broadcast, Inf plug; circular, notice, placard, poster, display; bulletin, bill, handbill, flyer, leaflet, throwaway, broadside. prompt, adj. 1. immediate, instant, instantaneous; direct, summary, fast; rapid, fleet, meteoric, quick, swift, brisk, expeditious, Inf. Johnny-on-the-spot; timely, seasonable, punctual, early, in good time, Inf. bright-and-early.
2. ready, willing, ready and willing; prone, apt, inclined, disposed, predisposed; agreeable, compliant, unhesitating, Inf. game, Archaic, fain, SI. into it; zealous, earnest, fervent, fervid, enthusiastic, anxious, eager, keen, avid, agog, Si. psyched; voluntary, spontaneous, gratuitous, unasked, unsought, unforced.
3. alert, intent, sharp, acute; attentive, observant, vigilant, watchful, alive; bright, wide-awake, on the alert, on the job, on guard, open-eared, open-eyed, on the qui vive, agile, energetic, spry, sprightly, nimble, speedy, mercurial, lively, animate; businesslike, efficient, no-frills, no-nonsense.
-v. 4. push, press, drive, propel, force, force along, shove; induce, impel, compel, constrain, move; instigate, actuate, initiate, activate, set going, put or set in motion.
5. urge, admonish, exhort, advise, counsel; persuade, influence, incline, dispose, predispose, prevail upon, Inf. twist [s.o.'s] arm; coax, ply, sway, talk into; tempt, lure, allure, beguile, inveigle, entice, Obs. allect.
6. iftcite, poke, prod, prick, thrust, goad, spur, egg
on, encourage, put up to; provoke, foment, agitate, excite, arouse, rouse; whip up, work up, stir up, wind up, fire up, inflame, enflame, enkindle, kindle, touch off; evoke, elicit, call forth, summon up.
7. stimulate, whet, animate, reanimate, invigorate, motivate, inspire; inspirit, rally, awaken, vivify, bestir, enliven, liven up, jolt, jog, shake up; embolden, enhearten, hearten, build up, buck up, boost, boost up; produce, occasion, give rise to, bring about; promote, advance, forward, foster, favor; support, advocate, patronize.
8. (all of a speaker) assist, aid, help, rescue, relieve; suggest, hint, put words in [s.o.'s] mouth; Theat. cue, remind, feed lines, jog or refresh or renew the memory, set back on the track.
-n. 9. stimulus, stimulant, incentive, fillip, provocative, motive; spur, prick, jog, poke, jolt; incitement, inducement, instigation, encouragement, abetment, provocation; dare, taunt, gibe.
10. (all of a speaker) assistance, aid, help, relief; suggestion, hint, dictation; Theat. cue, reminder, refresher.
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