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Meaning downgrade meaning

What does downgrade mean?

downgrade

— verb rate lower; lower in value or esteem — noun the property possessed by a slope or surface that descends

Synonyms downgrade synonyms

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demote slope relegate lower grade down-grade degrade abase worsen upgrade take down a peg or two shave reduce pitch mortify make worse low-grade low quality inferior quality incline humiliate gradient go downhill flatten fall fail drop downhill downgrading demean declivity declination declension debase cut down cant bring down be unfortunate be on the decline alloy

Topics downgrade topics

What do people use downgrade to talk about?
States Quality Shape Horizontal

Leaning, sloping

Conjugation downgrade conjugation

How do you conjugate downgrade?

downgrade · verb

Examples downgrade examples

How do I use downgrade in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

You're kind of kicking me downgrade, ain't you?
Besides, they downgrade property values.
From there it's downgrade all the way to switzerland.
Well, not officially, but they might downgrade our role.
The downgrade is complete!
I got a downgrade.
If you're gonna talk about the stars I'm gonna have to downgrade you to a four.
Although, the Germans claimed it was set on a slight downgrade.
The Russians promised they were going to downgrade the combat status of their subs.
You see,steph,when you took the woodcock name-- which by the way,was a pretty big downgrade from taylor.
By saying the word so many times, you downgrade it.
If you downgrade us, he's gonna fire me.
We're gonna downgrade the threat level because the general public needs some good news.
I don't mean to uphold or downgrade all nations, but communism, socialism, fascism, the free enterprise-system and all other sub-cultures are the same.
Then we can start the downgrade.
Start the downgrade film.
We have a proposal on the table to downgrade your security status to a stop S.
There I was, on a lonely deserted mountain road in the middle of the night when suddenly, my breaks failed on the downgrade.
WATERWHEEL ROBOT: The downgrade is complete!
What now, Bender? -I got a downgrade.
Although the Germans claimed it was set on a slight downgrade.
Maybe we can downgrade to Tele from ICU.
We got four K left before the downgrade.
Patient made a big downgrade in his personal life.
Did you honestly believe I wouldn't find out you paid off a judge last summer to downgrade Daniel's D.U.I. and reckless endangerment charges?
That's quite a downgrade from Emily Thorne.
You know, I have the authority to downgrade your ass to a Winnebago.
In those days it was fashionable to downgrade Russian technology. before Sputnik.
Only on a steep downgrade.
If you messed up, they won't downgrade you.
Naturally, since they're oligarchs, they're gonna try to downgrade the standard of living of the vast majority of the population.
They're gonna downgrade it? You should have to try to lift something before you downgrade it.
Are you more likely to downgrade the status of a woman you blame for her liver condition?
It was on a slight downgrade between Bytham and Essendine.

News and current affairs

To anyone not blinded by folly, the explanation for this mass downgrade is obvious.
Rumors have swirled about a possible downgrade of France's sovereign debt, accompanied by speculation about the consequences for French banks.
Ratings agencies wait too long to spot risks and downgrade countries, while investors behave like herds, often ignoring the build-up of risk for too long, before shifting gears abruptly and causing exaggerated market swings.
Now a combination of high oil and commodity prices, turmoil in the Middle East, Japan's earthquake and tsunami, eurozone debt crises, and America's fiscal problems (and now its rating downgrade) have led to a massive increase in risk aversion.
The ECB and creditor banks can live for two or three weeks with a temporary downgrade of Greece's debt.
But if the US continues to downgrade its commitment to multilateralism, and instead determines to intervene militarily wherever it pleases, then the world will become a much more dangerous place.
It had originally been intended that the Doha Round would address investment, but the developing countries chose to downgrade the issue and concentrate on agriculture instead.
Ireland has been assigned a negative outlook and could soon suffer a downgrade as well.
When then US Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers tried to change the Bank's Decennial report on poverty - to downgrade concerns about insecurity and empowerment and to focus more narrowly on income - the Bank prevailed.
And now the country has absorbed another huge blow: another downgrade of its bond ratings.
MADRID - The recent downgrade of Brazil's credit rating to junk status was followed by a raft of articles heralding the crumbling of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa).
Other emerging markets also look fragile and at risk of an eventual downgrade.
Moreover, since early September, the potential benefits of cooperation now include avoiding an embarrassing credit-rating downgrade next year if medium-term fiscal reform does not materialize.
Yet, those of us who are exposed on a daily basis to the inner workings of financial markets would caution against too upbeat an attitude toward a second downgrade by a major ratings agency.
Indeed, I am rather baffled by the IMF's decision to downgrade its growth forecast for much of the world.
As private rating agencies live on the fees they collect from rated companies, they cannot easily downgrade important clients or the assets they sell.
French officials have now reacted to the prospect of a credit rating downgrade by lashing out at Britain.
As proof of this new realism, the government has been trumpeting its response to the set of policy recommendations that an expert panel led by the business executive Louis Gallois presented two weeks before the downgrade.
We might also be looking at a potential ratings downgrade for US government debt - implying the prospect of even higher interest rates.

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