Drop from major to captain, say

Usage examples of demotion.

It was then that she entered her plea for demotion, assuring them that they would not only save money but would also acquire the services of a waitress totally absorbed in and dedicated to her profession.

Is there any defense you wish to have registered before sentence of demotion is passed upon you?

Being a chief deputy in Podunk was a demotion from being a lieutenant on the Memphis police force, and his yearly salary dropped by over twenty thousand.

No need to explain to Sanders that the so-called promotion had meant a job change, a move from one state to another and a demotion in pay.

Marlin gave the rookie a moment to visualize demotion to a patrol unit.

Harley should have the job, but his demotion had to hurt him badly back East.

She says I should just turn belly-up and accept a demotion and a cut in pay.

Usually, they accepted their demotion with grace, glad to remain part of the pack, sometimes moving into another pack where the loss of their former status might not sting as intensely.

However, the growing number of demotions over the period, added to an ever-increasing birth-rate down there, have given rise to latest estimates of at least twice that number, with the highest estimate indicating a below-Net population of eight billion.

But the facts pointed to an opposite outcome: a precipitous transfer off the Feynman along with a demotion in stature, if not rank, and the subsequent twenty-year estrangement of old friends.

She rummaged through the downloaded Pax Base Bombasino files to identify the sleeping trooper -- a Lusian named Gerrin Pawtz, thirty-eight standard years old, a lazy, initiative-free alcohol addict, two years away from retirement, six demotions and three sentences to brigtime in his file, assignments relegated to garrison duty and the most mundane base tasks -- and then she deleted the file.

He was moved from one PW camp to the next and finally found peace in an English camp for antifascist prisoners, for along with the usual guardhouse peccadilloes the reason for his demotion was noted in his paybook.

Mast, or nonjudicial punishment, would mete out demotion, pay decreases, or extra duties.

Because while the opportunities for advancement and promotion on Pyrassis were decidedly circumscribed, the demon of demotion was ever present and waiting to be fed.

Similar adjudications have saved petunias, euonymus, and a popular species of amaryllis from demotion, but not many species of geraniums, which some years ago were transferred, amid howls, to the genus Pelargonium.