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promoted to customer

promoted to customer is the simple past and past participle of promote to customer.

Meaning of promote to customer

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...

Questions about promoted to customer

What is promoted to customer the simple past and past participle of?
Promoted to customer is the simple past and past participle of promote to customer.

Words near promoted to customer in the dictionary

  1. promote to customer
  2. promote to Glory
  3. promoteability
  4. promoteable
  5. promoted
  6. promoted to customer
  7. promotee
  8. promotees
  9. promotement
  10. promoter
  11. promoterless

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