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KICK UPSTAIRS
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
Example:
I got promoted after many years of hard work
Synonyms:
advance; elevate; kick upstairs; promote; raise; upgrade
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "kick upstairs" is one way to...):
assign; delegate; depute; designate (give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "kick upstairs"):
tenure (give life-time employment to)
bring up (promote from a lower position or rank)
spot promote (promote on the spot)
ennoble; entitle; gentle (give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility)
favor; favour; prefer (promote over another)
brevet (promote somebody by brevet, in the military)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
