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social promotion

social promotion noun: the practice of promoting a student to the next grade only at the end of the current school year, regardless of when or whether they learned the necessary material, in order to keep them with their peers by age.

Noun

social promotion (countable and uncountable, plural social promotions)

  1. The practice of promoting a student to the next grade only at the end of the current school year, regardless of when or whether they learned the necessary material, in order to keep them with their peers by age.

Forms of social promotion

pluralsocial promotions

Questions about social promotion

What does social promotion mean?
Social promotion means the practice of promoting a student to the next grade only at the end of the current school year, regardless of when or whether they learned the necessary material, in order to keep them with their peers by age.
What part of speech is social promotion?
Social promotion is a noun.
What is the plural of social promotion?
The plural of social promotion is social promotions.

Words near social promotion in the dictionary

  1. social power
  2. social profile
  3. social profiles
  4. social programming
  5. social project management
  6. social promotion
  7. social promotions
  8. social proof
  9. social psychologies
  10. social psychology
  11. social realism

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