downgrading
present participle ofdowngrade
| 单词 | downgrading |
| 释义 | downgrading present participle ofdowngrade downgrade verb[T] uk/ˌdaʊnˈɡreɪd/us/ˌdaʊnˈɡreɪd/toreducesomeone or something to alowerrankorposition, or tocausesomething to beconsideredlessimportantorvaluable: My job's been downgradedtothat ofordinaryeditor. We can'tletthemanagementdowngrade theimportanceofsafetyatwork. Opposites advance elevate promote raise Compare upgradeverb Promoting staff
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Deteriorating and making worse Examplesofdowngradingdowngrading In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The learners used a variety of syntacticdowngradingwith more accuracy than lexicaldowngrading. From theCambridge English Corpus In the long term, this strategy has advantages in terms of containing public sector liabilities, but involves furtherdowngradingthe contributory principle. From theCambridge English Corpus Again and again in academic theorizing, a questionabledowngradingtakes place. From theCambridge English Corpus Failure to meet these criteria leads todowngradingto feed quality. From theCambridge English Corpus Of interest to the present study is the observation thatdowngradingis systematically blocked just in case the first word contains a long vowel. From theCambridge English Corpus In none of these cases isdowngradingobserved. From theCambridge English Corpus Another practical issue is the need for selective declassification ordowngrading. From theCambridge English Corpus Accordingly, transitions to the liberal labour model are characterized by the discontinuation ordowngradingof corporatist institutions that previously included labour. From theCambridge English Corpus A second practice fordowngradingfirst position assessments involves the use of tag questions. From theCambridge English Corpus It subverted the policy ofdowngradingand eliminating gold in the world monetary system. From theCambridge English Corpus Our method of social class allocation, if anything, should have led to adowngradingrather than an upgrading in social class. From theCambridge English Corpus Thus, while the prosody of a phrase is affected bydowngrading, the meaning is not. From theCambridge English Corpus With this as a basis, we will then turn todowngrading. From theCambridge English Corpus He was unequivocal indowngradingthe influence of race and environment. From theCambridge English Corpus The arguments support a different conclusion, namelydowngradingthe importance of minor consequences, and upgrading the importance of major consequences. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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