"demote" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used when someone is formally reduced in rank or status. For example, "He was demoted from supervisor to associate after making a series of mistakes."
It comes less than a week after the European Union accused the firm's search engine of systematically giving favourable treatment to Google Shopping, its price-comparison service.The latest change is not meant to discriminate against rivals, but to demote sites in Google's mobile-search results that are not deemed "mobile-friendly".
It will become illegal for businesses to hire, promote or demote people on grounds of age.
This will give him the right to block nominees with no evident talents for a commissioner's job, and to demote lousy ones once in office.
And it extends protection for whistleblowers: no company may "discharge, demote, suspend, threaten, harass, or in any other manner discriminate against an employee" because of any lawful provision of information about suspected fraud.
The EU's new Amsterdam treaty, which came into force on May 1st, gives him power to veto candidates he thinks unsuitable, and also to demote commissioners who disappoint him in office.One or two members of the Santer commission, untainted by the scandal in March, will probably reappear in the Prodi version.
This is because further changes in the rankings should be triggered only by new information, which, on average, is as likely to promote a school as demote it.
For the past week the Bush team has done little to quell the rumour that Mr Bush would demote the job from cabinet level (a position that it has held since 1975).If this does indeed happen, who will take the policymaking lead in the cabinet?
Rather than demote some participants to a "second class" of virtual participation, he would prefer to have everyone participate virtually.Although it may be ahead of proprietary software on some fronts, open-source software lags behind in many areas too, Mr Shuttleworth admits.
Or, if it prompts rating agencies to demote Brazil to junk, possibly even an acute crisis.
The right outcome would be a reform of Croatia's intelligence services and special police to sack or demote those responsible for shielding Mr Gotovina.
Mr Chrétien had to pack one public-works minister off to Denmark as ambassador, and then demote his successor for taking a holiday in a contractor's lakeside home.
