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单词 demotion
释义
demotion
noun[CorU]
uk
/dɪˈməʊ.ʃən/us
/dɪˈmoʊ.ʃən/
areductioninrankorposition:
降级；降职
Theclubwerethreatenedwith demotiontothe Second Division.这家俱乐部面临降级到乙级队的危险。
Governmentemployeesareworryingabout demotions or beingremovedfromtheirjobsaltogether.政府雇员担心被降级或完全被裁员。
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  • Davislearnedof his demotion while onvacationin Florida.
  • Defeat for theteamwouldmeandemotion from the PremierLeague.
  • The ChiefSecretarywas anotherministerwhofaceddemotion ordismissal.
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(Definition ofdemotionfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

demotion| Business English

demotion
n[CorU]
uk
/dɪˈməʊʃən/us
HR
amoveto a lessseniorjob, or theactofmovingsomeone to a lessseniorjob:
His demotion wouldmeanareductioninretirementpayfrom $9,400 amonthto $8,500.
Analternativetoleavingthecompanycould be demotion orsalaryreduction.
asituationin which acompany,team, etc.movesto alowerplacein alistbecause it hasperformedbadly:
demotion from/to sthThegrocerisfacingdemotion to thebottomof thesupermarketleaguetable.

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(Definition ofdemotionfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdemotion

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However, the substantive argument here is worth spelling out, and it is that leaders punish dissent withdemotionin order to discourage further rebellion.
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No positive evidence would ever be available to motivate thedemotionof a previously dominant faithfulness constraint below a markedness constraint.
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Our accounts thus fully complied with the optimality theoretic principles of richness of the base and constraintdemotion.
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In the narrowing of this distance, domesticated pragmatism sees and heralds ademotionof politics: the politics of big dreams and big alternatives.
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This is quite similar to the mechanism of promotion anddemotionfor handling threats.
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Since personal passives exhibit bothdemotionand promotion, they provide no basis for adjudicating between these choices.
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Standing outside the official administrative hierarchy, a clerk was not subject to the administrative process of promotions and demotions and to changes in assignations.
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The blow had immediate ramifications : executions, demotions, and transfers followed.
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Alternatively, promotion can be identified as the main effect, which has as a consequence thedemotionof the logical subject.
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Thedemotionalso occurred by some geneticists misuse of their own findings.
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Demotionof a constraint is motivated by mismatches between the outputs of the child's system and those of the adult system.
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A temporal-parts ontology of created individuals thus offers itself as an excellent means of effecting the requisite ontologicaldemotion.
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Clearly the situation is changed dramatically by thedemotionof the primary qualities.
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In the absence of a mismatch, constraintdemotionis not motivated because there is no evidence that the child's current ranking is incorrect.
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On the contrary,demotionwas not a consequence of their dissent, but its principal cause.
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