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• The drug company is planning to downgrade some of its products from prescription status.
• Eighty-eight middle managers had been made redundant, downgraded or fired.
• Services have been reduced and temporary contracts are being used to downgrade or replace qualified staff.
— compare upgrade1• Analysts downgraded four-year profit projections and exposed the fledgling company to the harsher side of stockmarket life.
• The company's long-term debt-rating has been downgraded from triple-A to double-A-2.
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downgrade stocks/shares
downgrade sth's rating/status »Investment bank Merrill Lynch downgraded the company's status from 'buy' to 'neutral'.
»The Chancellor blamed higher oil prices for the downgraded growth forecast.
The new contracts effectively downgraded their jobs to match their colleagues' lower pay.
»The agreement may lead to one in six staff being downgraded.
A credit rating downgrade would raise their cost of borrowing.
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• The drug company is planning to downgrade some of its products from prescription status.
• Eighty-eight middle managers had been made redundant, downgraded or fired.
• Services have been reduced and temporary contracts are being used to downgrade or replace qualified staff.
— compare upgrade1• Analysts downgraded four-year profit projections and exposed the fledgling company to the harsher side of stockmarket life.
• The company's long-term debt-rating has been downgraded from triple-A to double-A-2.
— compare upgrade1* * *
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downgrade stocks/shares
downgrade sth's rating/status »Investment bank Merrill Lynch downgraded the company's status from 'buy' to 'neutral'.
»The Chancellor blamed higher oil prices for the downgraded growth forecast.
The new contracts effectively downgraded their jobs to match their colleagues' lower pay.
»The agreement may lead to one in six staff being downgraded.
A credit rating downgrade would raise their cost of borrowing.
The post was downgraded in the company reorganization. — В процессе реорганизации компании должность была отнесена к более низкому разряду.
Later in 1977, he was downgraded to the post of Director (Research and Development) from which he was also removed on January 1, 1978.— В конце 1977 г. он был понижен до звания директора (по исследованиям и разработкам), а 1 января 1978 его отстранили и от этой должности.
A train thunders along a down-grade. — Поезд грохочет на спуске.
Building activities are on the downgrade. — Строительная деятельность в упадке.
There is no evidence that the British Empire is on the downgrade. — Нет никаких доказательств того, что Британская империя в упадке.
on the down-grade - а) в упадке; теряющий влияние и т. п.; б) в плохом состоянии
his business is on the down-grade - его дела в плохом состоянии, его дела идут всё хуже