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  • adjective Able to be promoted; eligible for promotion.

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Examples

  • Dear Googler, if you're still reading, may I ask how you managed to achieve "promotable" status without knowing how to Google "Army enlisted pay charts"?

    bluemeany Diary Entry bluemeany 2005

  • "The difficulty, of course, is that there is now no way for [command screening] boards to know whether a given 'promotable' officer was an outstanding officer among a group of other outstanding officers or whether an 'early promote' was just the least bad," he said.

    Stars and Stripes 2010

  • "The Event" also reps the kind of promotable, big event (hell, it has the word "event" in its title) series that NBC hopes will light a spark with viewers and pull the Peacock out of its doldrums.

    Variety.com 2010

  • Two Soldiers who did, earned their "promotable" status, are Specialists Katherine Gutierrez and Aaron Rickert, both human resource specialists with Headquarters and Headquarters Company,

    Blackanthem Military News 2010

  • But in some cases, a show's episodes may be aired out of production order if the network feels a certain episode is particularly strong and promotable — this most frequently happens during a sweeps period — although there are executives from both the studio and network side who are supposed to be keeping an eye on matters like continuity.

    Ask Matt: Killing Finale Fallout, Thrones, Glee Changes and More! 2011

  • All it does is show firsthand that you can't be trusted with confidential information, which is definitely not a promotable quality.

    Donna Flagg: Five Things They Don't Teach You in Business School Donna Flagg 2011

  • Successful, promotable women also tend to be very good, given the chance, at making decisions about the right people to hire.

    Laugh And Have Fun. You'll Be More Successful 2011

  • All it does is show firsthand that you can't be trusted with confidential information, which is definitely not a promotable quality.

    Donna Flagg: Five Things They Don't Teach You in Business School Donna Flagg 2011

  • Successful, promotable women also tend to be very good, given the chance, at making decisions about the right people to hire.

    Laugh And Have Fun. You'll Be More Successful 2011

  • But in some cases, a show's episodes may be aired out of production order if the network feels a certain episode is particularly strong and promotable — this most frequently happens during a sweeps period — although there are executives from both the studio and network side who are supposed to be keeping an eye on matters like continuity.

    Ask Matt: Killing Finale Fallout, Thrones, Glee Changes and More! 2011

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