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# demote

«demote» in Mova's school dictionary: **to move them to a lower rank, job or level** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (demote, demotes, demoted, demoting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To demote someone is to move them to a lower rank, job or level. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demote/#m1)

2) In sport, to move a team down a league (UK: relegate). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demote/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Adult life (being demoted at work), sport, games and computer rankings.

### examples

- He was demoted from captain to player. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demote/#x1)
- The manager demoted her after the mistake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demote/#x2)
- Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demote/#x3)
- Losing three games could demote us. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demote/#x4)
- The officer was demoted for bad behaviour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demote/#x5)
- The coach threatened to demote anyone who skipped practice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demote/#x6)

### note

Opposite: promote. Noun: demotion. Pluto example: scientists reclassified it.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «demote» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demote/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.