The phrase "a demoted" is not correct in standard English usage.
It is typically used when referring to someone or something that has been lowered in rank or status, but it requires a noun to follow it.
Example: "He was a demoted employee after the restructuring of the company."
Alternatives: "a downgraded" or "a reduced".
The ruling came in a case involving a demoted Phoenix police officer's request for data embedded in notes written by a supervisor.
Since returning to a demoted position in fall 2015, he has become a running joke about bad journalistic practice, and he's continued to receive criticism for what some viewers argue are crude or tone deaf on-air remarks.
"This is in his pay grade, not mine," said a demoted Snowe Tuesday night.
He was sentenced to three years in prison, but he was released after a month, demoted, and reassigned to an Me 262 fighter squadron in Germany.
"Hirsch" to his friends – though he no longer has any – is a recently demoted Adelaide detective and, according to rumour, a despised whistleblower.
Sunset was like watching a somehow demoted star, stripped of its brilliance, reduced to a perfect red disk riding low in the sky.
For a player demoted to the minors last August, he has been invaluable.
Between Japan's tragic tsunami and the company's seeming complacency, Honda has been in a funk, demoted from its first-string status in design or innovation.
As soon as a user demotes a "friend" from intimate to arm's-length in his Facebook settings, this will also take effect on other sites.
For example, even if an attacker demotes a decent item by injecting a poor rating, he/she can always insist that it is based on difference in individual preference.
Denzel Washington, left, in a version of the Walter Matthau role, plays a Metropolitan Transportation Authority stalwart demoted to dispatcher, pending an investigation into accusations of bribe taking.
