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- adjective Able to be
promoted ; eligible forpromotion .
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Examples
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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
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"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
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"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
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Two Soldiers who did, earned their "promotable" status, are Specialists Katherine Gutierrez and Aaron Rickert, both human resource specialists with Headquarters and Headquarters Company,
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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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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
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Successful, promotable women also tend to be very good, given the chance, at making decisions about the right people to hire.
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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
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Successful, promotable women also tend to be very good, given the chance, at making decisions about the right people to hire.
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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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