Demote

Definition: Demote

Demote

Verb

1. Assign to a lower position; reduce in rank; "She was demoted because she always speaks up".

Note: Demote \De*mote"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Demoted; present participle verb or noun Demoting.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Demote

Synonyms: break (v), bump (v), kick downstairs (v), relegate (v). (additional references)

Antonym: promote (v). (additional references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Slovak Republic	The Ministry of Justice can demote presidents and vice presidents of the courts for any reason, although they remain judges, and it has done so; however, the President of the Supreme Court can only be removed from office through impeachment. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Demote" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Demote" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	100%	12	101,599

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "demote"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ul në pozitë. (various references)

Arabic		‏نزل رتبته (break), ‏نزل درجته. (various references)

Bulgarian		оставям да повтаря класа, понижавам (abase, abate, degrade, disgrace, flatten, impair, lower, reduce, relegate, sing flat, whittle away). (various references)

Chinese		降职 (Demoted, Demoting), 貶斥 (denounce). (various references)

Czech		degradovat (bust, degrade, displume, downgrade, reduce, relegate). (various references)

Farsi		کسرمقام یافتن , تنزل رتبه دادن (Degrade). (various references)

French		destituer (depose), rétrograder. (various references)

German		degradieren (bust, degrade, downgrade, reduce, relegate, to demote, to downgrade). (various references)

Greek		υποβιβάζω (abase, degrade, lower, relegate). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"ורי�" ב�"ר�'�" (abase, degrade, downgrade). (various references)

Hungarian		degradál, lefokoz (degrade, to degrade, to demote, to disgrace, to disrate, to reduce to the ranks, to vignette). (various references)

Indonesian		menurunkan (bate, degrade). (various references)

Italian		degradare (abandon ship, abase, debase, degrade, degrade oneself, depreciate, derate, deteriorate, downgrade, reduce). (various references)

Korean		강�"�시키십시�". (various references)

Manx		injillaghey (change down, cheap, cheap morally, condescend, cut, cut down, debase, defer, degradation, degrade, demotion, depreciate, depreciation, depress, depression, die down, humiliate, humiliation, level down, reduce, reduction, relegate, sink, step down, subdue, subject, submit, subordinate, subordination, turn down, vulgarization, vulgarize), cur keim sheese. (various references)

Pig Latin		emoteday

Portuguese		degradar (abase, attaint, bastardize, break, degrade, diminish, put down), rebaixar (abase, banalize, belittle, bemean, bust, crab, debase, decry, degrade, demean, denigrate, depreciate, diminish, disparagement, flank, humble, humiliated, lower, mark down, put down, skiver, undercut, vilipend, vulgarize). (various references)

Romanian		retrograda (abase, degrade, reduce, relegate). (various references)

Russian		смещать с должности, понижать в должности. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sniziti (abate, humble, knock down, lower). (various references)

Spanish		degradar (abase, bastardize, break, cashier, corrode, corrupt, debase, degrade, demean, demount, down grade, mortify, put down, shade off), bajar (abase, abate, bow, bring down, climb down, come down, cut, decline, decrease, deign, demean, depreciate, descend, detrain, discount, dismount, download, drop, drop off, duck, ebb, fall, fall away, fall back, fall off, get down, get off, get out, go below, go belowdecks, go down, hand down, hang, hop off, let down, lift down, lower, pull down, put down, rebate, recede, reduce, ring down, sag, set out, sink, step down, stoop, subside, take down, trail, turn down, walk down, walk off, wind down). (various references)

Swedish		degradera (bust, degrade, downgrade). (various references)

Turkish		rütbesini indirmek (degrade, deprive, disrate), alt sınıfa indirmek. (various references)

Ukranian		усувати з посади (deprive), понижувати на посаді. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "demote": demoted, demotes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Demote" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dalmore, damole, Damonte, damozel, Delmore, deloite, demet, demite, demoth, Demoze, denate, denotel, denoter, denoue, denove, Dermitze, Derota, Deroute, dimot, Dimove, Dincote, D'monte, Domette, Dosmate, Dymmoke, Dymoke, fembot, Melmotte, Timofte, Timoteo, Timoti. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "demote" (pronounced di'mō"t)
3	-m ō" t	moat, mote, promote, remote.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: emoted.
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-m-o-t"
	-1 letter: emote, meted.
	-2 letters: deem, deet, deme, demo, dome, dote, meed, meet, mete, mode, mote, teed, teem, toed, tome.
	-3 letters: dee, doe, dom, dot, eme, med, met, mod, mot, ode, ted, tee, tod, toe, tom.
	-4 letters: de, do, ed, em, et, me, mo, od, oe, om, to.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-m-o-t"
	+1 letter: demeton, demoted, demotes.
	+2 letters: bodement, coempted, competed, demetons, ectoderm, entoderm, entombed, fomented, mentored, moderate, modester, molested, mothered, nematode, odometer, oedemata, udometer.
	+3 letters: bevomited, bodements, commented, completed, contemned, demounted, dermatome, dosimeter, durometer, ectoderms, edematous, endosteum, endotherm, endowment, entoderms, geometrid, homestead, lodgement, mentioned, meteoroid, methadone, methodise, methodize, moderated, moderates, modernest, modestest, modesties, moistened, monetised, monetized, nematodes, odometers, outbeamed, overtimed, pedometer, remounted, smothered, tormented, trematode, udometers.
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