demotion

[dih-moht]

de·mote

[dih-moht]
verb (used with object), de·mot·ed, de·mot·ing.
to reduce to a lower grade, rank, class, or position (opposed to promote): They demoted the careless waiter to busboy.

Origin:
1890–95, Americanism; de- + (pro)mote

de·mo·tion, noun
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Demotion is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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demote (dɪˈməʊt)
 
vb
(tr) to lower in rank or position; relegate
 
[C19: from de- + (pro)mote]
 
de'motion
 
n

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