nonpromotion
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]nonpromotion (countable and uncountable, plural nonpromotions)
- Failure to promote a person to a higher rank.
- 1854, The Edinburgh Review or Critical Journal, page 114:
- It is true that there are men to be found who never rise beyond a curacy; as there are grey-headed midshipmen occasionally to be seen in the navy. But the former case is quite as rare as the latter; promotion is the rule, non-promotion the exception, in both professions.
- (US, education) The holding back of a pupil instead of advancing them to the next year of studies.
- 1990, Kofi Lomotey, Going to School: The African-American Experience, page 62:
- The first group consisted of the Black teachers who expressed ambivalence and concern that students would be emotionally hurt by nonpromotions. The second group consisted of gregarious, highly spirited teachers.