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promoting to customer

promoting to customer is the present participle and gerund 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 promoting to customer

What is promoting to customer the present participle and gerund of?
Promoting to customer is the present participle and gerund of promote to customer.

Words near promoting to customer in the dictionary

  1. promotes to customer
  2. promotest
  3. promoteth
  4. promotility
  5. promoting
  6. promoting to customer
  7. promotingly
  8. promotion
  9. promotional
  10. promotional copies
  11. promotional copy

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