Čo znamená downgrade v angličtine a aká je definícia downgrade?

V tomto najautoritatívnejšom anglickom slovníku sa môžete naučiť downgrade výslovnosť, gramatika a synonymá.

downgrade Význam & definícia

0 to reduce someone or something to a lower rank or position, or to cause something to be considered less important or valuable:
- My job's been downgraded to that of ordinary editor.
- We can't let the management downgrade the importance of safety at work.
1 the process of downgrading:
- A credit rating downgrade would raise their cost of borrowing.
2 to reduce someone or something to a lower rank or position; to make less important or less valued:
- They threatened to downgrade my credit rating if I don’t pay the bill immediately.
3 to state that something such as a company is likely to produce less profit or growth, to be less able to pay back debt, etc. than was previously thought:
- downgrade stocks/shares
- downgrade sth's rating/status Investment bank Merrill Lynch downgraded the company's status from 'buy' to 'neutral'.
- The Chancellor blamed higher oil prices for the downgraded growth forecast.
4 to make a job less senior, skilled, or important than before, or to put someone into a less senior or important job:
- The new contracts effectively downgraded their jobs to match their colleagues' lower pay.
- The agreement may lead to one in six staff being downgraded.
5 a statement that something such as a company's profit, ability to pay back debt, etc. will be less than was expected:
- A credit rating downgrade would raise their cost of borrowing.

During the interval, eighty-eight had been made redundant, downgraded or fired from work.
The relative importance of each of these top-ranking issues was, however, distinctly downgraded relative to other issues between 1996 and 2000.
Crucially, when a rating agency downgrades a security to speculative grade, the agency has effectively commanded certain regulated investors to sell.
Therefore, our statistical tests probably downgraded the effects of latent toxoplasmosis on the psychomotor performance.
Moral virtue would be downgraded because it would no longer be required for heaven.
Before examining downgraded forms, however, a few comments regarding phrasing are warranted.
The learners used a variety of syntactic downgrading with more accuracy than lexical downgrading.
Since downgraded bread wheat will mainly be used for feed, the supply of feed wheat is heavily influenced by the quality of bread wheat.