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demote
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    If I don't see improvement, I will be forced to demote you to the lower classes.†  (source)
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    In this double demotion the old giants have become pigmies while you were looking the other way.†  (source)
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    After a few trial runs, I demoted him to dancer.†  (source)
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    Just like the rebel sympathizers that the king demoted a caste.†  (source)
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    "That's a demotion," Mindy said.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    I heard myself strangely demoting our men to the more helpless boys.†  (source)
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    They demoted him to the rotating shift he'd been on during the first days of the job.†  (source)
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    I think it was quite a demotion.†  (source)
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    There was, as yet, no official temple in Ors—these are all primarily dedicated to Amaat, any other gods on the premises take lesser places, and the head priest of Ikkt had not seen her way clear to demoting her god in its own temple, or identifying Ikkt with Amaat closely enough to add Radchaai rites to her own.†  (source)
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    And for me, that was the final and truly unbearable tragedy: Like all the innumerable dead, he'd once and for all been demoted from haunted to haunter.†  (source)
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    Any failure of duty on their part was liable to be punished by demotion and loss of privileges.†  (source)
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    And she was so incensed at your demoting Hugh from the management of the mill.†  (source)
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    After going wacko at the groundbreaking ceremony, Chuck E. Muckle got demoted to the post of assistant junior vice-president.†  (source)
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