demote
[ T ]UK
to move a sports team to a higher group: （体育队）晋级（至高一级别的联赛组别）
If Coventry City win this match, they'll be promoted to the Premier League.如果考文垂市队赢得了这场比赛，他们将晋升英超联赛。
[ Toften passive ]US
If a student is promoted, he or she goes up to the next level in school.使（学生）升级
It is my considered opinion that he should be promoted.仔细考虑后我认为他应该得到提升。
He's deluding himself if he thinks he's going to be promoted this year.如果他认为今年将获得晋升，那他是在自己骗自己。
She was very demotivated by being told she had little chance of being promoted.当她被告知将来没有什么晋升机会后，她的上进心受到了严重的打击。
What's her official designation now she's been promoted?她晋升后的正式职务是什么？
She has been promoted from deputy manager to senior manager.

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Examples of promoted

promoted

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Adhesion is then promoted by compressive states of stresses, which leads to the closure of the cavities.
Whenever data in the nursery space survives a garbage collection, it is promoted to another space containing older data.
Neuronal death in the hippocampus is promoted by plasmin-catalyzed degradation of laminin.
The controllability-centered performance evaluation of mobile manipulators promoted in this paper relies on the linear controllability.
Those who became bilingual teachers described work environments and duties that promoted the development of their teacher efficacy.
However, high temperature promoted the germination of non-deeply dormant seeds.
In conclusion, this species appears to be promoted by elephants, but can thrive without them.
It is due to a decrease of the electronic shielding, which is produced when an electron is promoted to a more external level.
Privatisation is usually part and parcel of standard reform packages, being also indirectly promoted by the requirements of reducing public deficits and protecting property rights.
Privileging one type of right over another, in fact, may skew the way rights are studied, protected and promoted.
Local interactions are often promoted, although they may not be explicitly mentioned as part of the model.
This depiction obscures the reality that in the past decade or more, legal responses to problems of land relations have been energetically promoted.
This gives them the opportunity to follow the new commercial orientations promoted by the government.
Online petitions and campaigns are frequently promoted and supported from this website too.
They have seized their chance with both hands, and promoted the development of 'community services'.
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