0 to reduce someone or something to a lower rank or position, or to cause something to be considered less important or valuable -- （使）降級；（使）降職；貶低；輕視
My job's been downgraded to that of ordinary editor. 我已經被降爲普通編輯了。
We can't let the management downgrade the importance of safety at work. 我們絕不能允許管理層輕視工作安全問題。
1 the process of downgrading -- 降級；降職；貶低；輕視
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.
