demotion

demotion: demote de‧mote [dɪˈməʊt ǁ -ˈmoʊt] verb [transitive] HUMAN RESOURCES

to give someone a job with a lower rank or position than they had before:

• Constructive dismissal can include demoting you or reducing your salary.

demote somebody to something

• After a Cabinet reshuffle, he was demoted to Deputy Education Secretary.

demote somebody from something

• He was demoted from his position as chairman of the board last April.

— demotion noun [countable, uncountable] :

• She could remain on the staff if she accepted demotion to ordinary lecturer.

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demotion UK US /dɪˈməʊʃ^ən/ n [C or U]

► HR a move to a less senior job, or the act of moving someone to a less senior job: »His demotion would mean a reduction in retirement pay from $9,400 a month to $8,500.
»An alternative to leaving the company could be demotion or salary reduction.

► a situation in which a company, team, etc. moves to a lower place in a list because it has performed badly: demotion from/to sth »The grocer is facing demotion to the bottom of the supermarket league table.

→ Compare PROMOTION(Cf. ↑promotion)

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demotion — index degradation, ignominy, removal Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
demotion — 1901, agent noun from DEMOTE (Cf. demote) (q.v.) … Etymology dictionary
Demotion — A demotion is a reduction in an employee s rank or job title within the organizational hierarchy of a company, public service department, or other body. A demotion may also lead to the loss of other privileges associated with a more senior rank… … Wikipedia
demotion — demote ► VERB ▪ reduce to a lower rank or less senior position. DERIVATIVES demotion noun. ORIGIN from DE (Cf. ↑de ) + a shortened form of PROMOTE(Cf. ↑promote) … English terms dictionary
demotion — noun see demote … New Collegiate Dictionary
demotion — See demote. * * * … Universalium
demotion — noun an act of demoting; a lowering of rank or status Ant: promotion … Wiktionary
demotion — Synonyms and related words: banishment, blackballing, comedown, concavity, de escalation, debasement, decadence, decadency, declension, declination, decline, deformation, defrocking, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation,… … Moby Thesaurus
demotion — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The act or an instance of demoting: degradation, reduction. See RISE … English dictionary for students
demotion — deÂ·moÂ·tion || â€šdiË mÉ™ÊŠÊƒn n. reduction to a lower rank or position … English contemporary dictionary

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