0 present participle of downgrade
1 to reduce someone or something to a lower rank or position, or to cause something to be considered less important or valuable:
We can't let the management downgrade the importance of safety at work.
The learners used a variety of syntactic downgrading with more accuracy than lexical downgrading.
In the long term, this strategy has advantages in terms of containing public sector liabilities, but involves further downgrading the contributory principle.
Again and again in academic theorizing, a questionable downgrading takes place.
Failure to meet these criteria leads to downgrading to feed quality.
Of interest to the present study is the observation that downgrading is systematically blocked just in case the first word contains a long vowel.
In none of these cases is downgrading observed.
Another practical issue is the need for selective declassification or downgrading.
Accordingly, transitions to the liberal labour model are characterized by the discontinuation or downgrading of corporatist institutions that previously included labour.
