noun. ['dɪˈmoʊʃən'] act of lowering in rank or position.
1. Noun, singular or mass This can include a cut in hours or pay or a demotion.
1. I love you as the mother of my child": the kiss of death.Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self. - Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce
