downgrade

Definitions

General English

  • verb to reduce the importance of a person or of a job.

Accounting

  • verb to reduce the status of an employee or position
  • verb to revise an earlier assessment of a company’s future financial position, or of the return on an investment, to give a less favourable likely outcome

Travel

  • verb to reduce something to a less important level
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