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 arguments support a different conclusion, namely downgrading the importance of minor consequences, and upgrading the importance of major consequences.
He was unequivocal in downgrading the influence of race and environment.
With this as a basis, we will then turn to downgrading.
Thus, while the prosody of a phrase is affected by downgrading, the meaning is not.
Our method of social class allocation, if anything, should have led to a downgrading rather than an upgrading in social class.
It subverted the policy of downgrading and eliminating gold in the world monetary system.
A second practice for downgrading first position assessments involves the use of tag questions.
Accordingly, transitions to the liberal labour model are characterized by the discontinuation or downgrading of corporatist institutions that previously included labour.
