0 a reduction in rank or position:
The club were threatened with demotion to the Second Division.
Government employees are worrying about demotions or being removed from their jobs altogether.
1 a move to a less senior job, or the act of moving someone to a less senior job:
His demotion would mean a reduction in retirement pay from $9,400 a month to $8,500.
An alternative to leaving the company could be demotion or salary reduction.
2 a situation in which a company, team, etc. moves to a lower place in a list because it has performed badly:
Defeat for the team would mean demotion from the Premier League.
The Chief Secretary was another minister who faced demotion or dismissal.
However, the substantive argument here is worth spelling out, and it is that leaders punish dissent with demotion in order to discourage further rebellion.
No positive evidence would ever be available to motivate the demotion of a previously dominant faithfulness constraint below a markedness constraint.
Our accounts thus fully complied with the optimality theoretic principles of richness of the base and constraint demotion.
In the narrowing of this distance, domesticated pragmatism sees and heralds a demotion of politics: the politics of big dreams and big alternatives.
This is quite similar to the mechanism of promotion and demotion for handling threats.
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