To reduce to a lower grade or rank, as in the military, one's employment, or in school; to assign to a lower position.

An online facility for Athens administrators to move accounts within their site from one administrator to another administrator at a lower hierarchical level in the accounts tree.

To increase the indent of a bullet to the next lower level, creating a subtopic.

To automatically copy the property values found in a SharePoint Portal Server document profile to the properties of a Microsoft Office document. For example, the author name entered in the Author property on the document profile is copied to the Author field on a Properties page in a Microsoft Word document. See also: promote