[1] : WordNet (r) 2.0

demotion
     n : act of lowering in rank or position ant: promotion
see also:
promotion 

[2] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

84 moby thesaurus words for "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, wane

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