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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

promote to customer en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (euphemistic, informal, transitive) To end someone's employment.
    • In the case of RadioShackSucks.com, many of the site participants reported being former employees (or in the vernacular of the Web site, employees who had been “promoted to customer”. 2006, Loril M. Gossett, Julian Kilker, “My Job Sucks: Examining Counterinstitutional Web Sites as Locations for Organizational Member Voice, Dissent, and Resistance”, in Management Communication Quarterly, volume 20, number 1, →DOI, page 72:

Forms

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promotes to customer Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
promoting to customer Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
promoted to customer Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
promoted to customer Tense=Past lexicographic