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promote to customer

promote to customer verb: to end someone's employment.

Verb

promote to customer (third-person singular simple present promotes to customer, present participle promoting to customer, simple past and past participle promoted to customer)

  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...

Forms of promote to customer

third-person singular presentpromotes to customer
present participlepromoting to customer
past participlepromoted to customer
pastpromoted to customer

Questions about promote to customer

What does promote to customer mean?
Promote to customer means to end someone's employment.
What part of speech is promote to customer?
Promote to customer is a verb.
What is the past tense of promote to customer?
The past tense of promote to customer is promoted to customer.

Words near promote to customer in the dictionary

  1. promotability
  2. promotable
  3. promotant
  4. promotants
  5. promote
  6. promote to customer
  7. promote to Glory
  8. promoteability
  9. promoteable
  10. promoted
  11. promoted to customer

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