demote

tr.v., -mot·ed, -mot·ing, -motes.
To reduce in grade, rank, or status.

[DE- + (PRO)MOTE.]

demotion de·mo'tion n.

SYNONYMS   demote, break, bust, degrade, downgrade, reduce. These verbs mean to lower in grade, rank, or status: was demoted from captain to lieutenant; a noncommissioned officer broken to the ranks; a detective who was busted to uniformed traffic patrol for insubordination; a supervisor degraded to an assistant; a popular author downgraded by critical opinion to a genre writer; was reduced from a command post to a desk job.
ANTONYM  promote

verb

To lower in rank or grade: break, bump, degrade, downgrade, reduce. Slang bust. See rise/fall.

v

Definition: downgrade, lower in rank
Antonyms: improve, promote, rate, upgrade

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IN BRIEF: v. - Assign to a lower position.

Tutor's tip: If you don't "denote" (to make something clear or precise) the results properly your boss may "demote" (to reduce someone's job status to a lower level) you.

Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - degradere

Nederlands (Dutch)
degraderen

Français (French)
v. tr. - rétrograder

Deutsch (German)
v. - degradieren, im Rang herabsetzen, zurückversetzen

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - υποβιβάζω (σε κατώτερο βαθμό), υποβαθμίζω

Italiano (Italian)
degradare

Português (Portuguese)
v. - rebaixar

Русский (Russian)
понижать в должности

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - degradar

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - degradera

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
使降级, 使降职

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 使降級, 使降職

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 지위를 강등하다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 階級を落とす, 降格する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يقلل من منزله أو درجه شئ أو شخص‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮הוריד בדרגה‬

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