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demotion
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demotion
banishment, blackballing, comedown, concavity, de-escalation, debasement, decadence, decadency, declension, declination, decline, deformation, defrocking, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, depluming, deportation, depravation, depravedness, depreciation, depression, deprivation, derogation, descent, deterioration, detrusion, devolution, diminution, disbarment, disfellowship, displuming, downgrading, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, drop, ducking, dying, ebb, effeteness, exclusion, excommunication, exile, expatriation, extradition, fading, failing, failure, failure of nerve, fall, falling-off, fugitation, hauling down, hollowness, humbling, humiliation, involution, lapse, loss of tone, lowering, ostracism, ostracization, outlawing, outlawry, reduction, regression, relegation, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, rustication, sinking, slippage, slump, stripping, submergence, suspension, thrusting under, transportation, unfrocking, waneFor further exploring for "demotion" in Webster Dictionary Online