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" As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job."
Nancy Grace

Meaning of "demotion" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF DEMOTION

dɪˈməʊʃ ən


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEMOTION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Demotion is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DEMOTION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Demotion

A demotion is a compulsory 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 and/or a reduction in salary or benefits. An employee may be demoted for violating the rules of the organization by a behavior such as excessive lateness, misconduct, or negligence. In some cases, though, an employee may be demoted as an alternative to being laid off, if the company is facing a financial crisis. A move to a position at the same rank or level elsewhere in the organization is called a lateral move or deployment. A voluntary move to a lower level is also a deployment as it is not a compulsory reduction in level. Demotion is often misinterpreted simply as the opposite of a promotion, however it is only one means of undergoing a reduction in work level.

Definition of demotion in the English dictionary

The definition of demotion in the dictionary is the act of lowering in rank or position. Other definition of demotion is the act of moving a team in a sports league to a lower division for the next competition.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DEMOTION

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEMOTION

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WORDS THAT END LIKE DEMOTION

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Synonyms and antonyms of demotion in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «demotion» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DEMOTION

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The translations of demotion from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «demotion» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

降级
1,325 millions of speakers
es

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descenso de categoría
570 millions of speakers
en

English

demotion
510 millions of speakers
hi

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डिमोशन
380 millions of speakers
ar

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التخفيض
280 millions of speakers
ru

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понижение
278 millions of speakers
pt

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rebaixamento
270 millions of speakers
bn

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পদাবনতি
260 millions of speakers
fr

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rétrogradation
220 millions of speakers
ms

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Penurunan berat badan
190 millions of speakers
de

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Degradierung
180 millions of speakers
ja

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降格
130 millions of speakers
ko

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강등
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Demotion
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cho xuống
80 millions of speakers
ta

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குறைப்பிற்கு
75 millions of speakers
mr

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पदावनती
75 millions of speakers
tr

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rütbe indirme
70 millions of speakers
it

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retrocessione
65 millions of speakers
pl

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degradacja
50 millions of speakers
uk

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пониження
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

retrogradarea
30 millions of speakers
el

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υποβιβασμός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

demovering
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

degradering
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nedgradering
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about demotion

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Nancy Grace
As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEMOTION»

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Sweet Demotion: How an Almost Famous Rock Journalist Lost ...
In his first book, Life on Planet Rock, author Lonn Friend shared his ringside view of rock's decade of decadence. Now, in Sweet Demotion, the veteran rock scribe takes off the gloves and battles himself.
Lonn Friend, 2011
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International Migration, Social Demotion, and Imagined ...
Recognizing immigrants decline as such, this book proposes viewing contemporary migration as socioglobal mobility.
Erind Pajo, 2007
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Kristin's Demotion
When OFS Software sales executive, Henry Shepard, is assigned to work with new recruit, Kristin Hartman, he thinks his luck has taken a turn for the better.
Lorenzo Marks, 2011
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Grievance Arbitration: Issues on the Merits in Discipline, ...
Demotion Unlike promotion or even some types of permanent transfers, demotion is not an action that usually is triggered at the initiation of an employee. Indeed, the concept of demotion implies that it is action taken against an employee's ...
Arnold Zack, 1989
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Languages, Compilers, and Run-Time Systems for Scalable ...
In figure4, we show the initial demotion candidates for basic blocks 2 and 3 where register pressure is 4 (assuming there are 3 available registers). We also compute the tentative estimate of demotion cost if a particular variable were to be  ...
Sandhya Dwarkadas, 2000
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Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems: ACM ...
2.2 Demotion Candidates For every region of high register pressure, we identify the variables which are promoted through the region and have the least number of uses or definitions. These variables constitute the initial set of demotion ...
Jack Davidson, Sang Lyul Min, 2001
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Demoting the Agent: Passive, Middle and Other Voice Phenomena
Invisible. arguments*. Effects. of. demotion. in. Estonian. and. Finnish. Elsi. Kaiser . and. Virve-Anneli. Vihman. This paper investigates the syntactic, semantic and discourse-level properties of the implicit argument in two constructions in Finnish  ...
Benjamin Lyngfelt, Torgrim Solstad, 2006
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The A-Z of Employment Practice
Whilst accepting the point that employers cannot assume that the loss of face would be too great for the employee to consider demotion, the practicalities of the situation would seem to indicate that, whenever possible, not only should there be ...
David M. Martin, 2006
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Staffing the Contemporary Organization: A Guide to Planning, ...
DEMOTIONS A demotion is the movement of an employee to a job of lesser responsibility or lower-level duties. Typically, a reduction in compensation accompanies a demotion. There are three conditions that may require the use of demotion ...
Donald L. Caruth, Gail D. Handlogten, 1997
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Grammatical Roles and Relations
1 Promotion and demotion Many languages have pairs of sentences such as: The policemen have caught the thief The thief has been caught by the policemen Traditionally, these are referred to as 'active' and 'passive' sentences respectively .
Frank Robert Palmer, 1994

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEMOTION»

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Maya sees caste politics in demotion of 64 UP engineers
“The Supreme Court had not disapproved of reservation in promotion. It had only laid down stringent conditions for it. Instead of following the ... «Chandigarh Tribune, Jul 15»
2
Mnangagwa caused Moyo demotion
Mnangagwa caused Moyo demotion. Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa scored victory over Jonathan Moyo when he successfully lobbied ... «The Zimbabwean, Jul 15»
3
Prof Moyo Demotion: Is IMPI Defunct and Moribund?
Sources maintain Moyo's demotion has been down to his perceived amorous political ambitions, noting that the new Tsholotsho North ... «RadioVop, Jul 15»
4
Demotion increasingly popular amongst employers
Demotion is becoming an increasingly popular option for employers. Almost half of Dutch organizations have demotion on the agenda for their ... «NL Times, Jul 15»
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Marcell Ozuna demotion a curious move for Miami Marlins
The Miami Marlins are in the midst of a rebuilding season, so it is a curious move for them to demote an admittedly struggling young ... «Fish Stripes, Jul 15»
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Grizzlies pitcher Brett Oberholtzer deals with demotion from Astros
Pitcher Brett Oberholtzer, who is on the Fresno Grizzlies roster after being optioned to the team by the Astros, talks to players in the Grizzlies ... «Fresno Bee, Jul 15»
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Rotary Club holds annual demotion dinner
The Rotary Club of Los Alamitos/Seal Beach held its annual Demotion Dinner on Tuesday, June 30. Outgoing Club President Todd Mattern, ... «Orange County Breeze, Jul 15»
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5 Explosive Revelations From NYT's Huffington Post Expose …
... high employee turnover and Huffington herself, who recently had a close brush with a demotion. In an extensive New York Times piece on its ... «TheWrap, Jul 15»
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Dillon Gee is getting rocked at Triple-A after Mets demotion
Dillon Gee pitched himself out of the Mets' starting rotation and then his $5.3 million contract went unclaimed on waivers after being designated ... «NBCSports.com, Jul 15»
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Quick Opinion: City Manager Loomis should say more about …
We're disappointed City Manager James Loomis won't comment further than last week's statement about the demotion of former Lubbock ... «LubbockOnline.com, Jul 15»
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