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.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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aggrandizement
anointment
ascend
ascension
career ladder
downgrade someone/something to something
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enthrone
exalt
fast track
Peter Principle
promote
promotion
reinstall
reinstallation
relegate
subordinate
waiver
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Examples of promoting

promoting

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

However, the main campaign issue was on promoting economic development and reducing the high unemployment rate.
Instead of promoting those economic policies, it introduced a number of restricted economic policies.
By the end of the eighteenth century, mining ceased to be the force promoting economic growth.
Before promoting a wide implementation of the intervention, however, we first propose to document its efficacy on a first sample of palliative care nurses.
Successful intervention programs frequently have the dual objective of promoting competence and preventing risks or problems.
Participatory assistance: an alternative to transfer of technology for promoting change on farms.
Parasite-induced alterations in both appearance and behaviour concur to render infected gammarids more vulnerable to predation, thus promoting parasite transmission.
Accounting for forest carbon can also be valuable in developed countries for promoting a switch in land use from agriculture to forestry.
These results indicate that the sugar residues of glycoproteins may play roles in promoting embryo maturation.
We here describe the legislative and institutional setting of the environmental management sector in the study countries, and draw major lessons for promoting institutional sustainability.
There is thus scope for promoting public access to computer facilities at schools and libraries.
This is the economic rationale for the watershed development program in dry land areas, promoting equity in access to water resources.
Sales authorities were highly conscious that customers' suspicions about feigned sincerity by sales agents could undermine the larger goal of promoting consumption.
This foundation is a non-profit association whose objective consists in promoting the success of emerging agent-based technology.
Whatever the sources promoting greater individual responsibility, many governments acknowledge that realizing viable retirement incomes in the future depends on citizens' competence and consistency.
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