Etymology
The word "downgrade" is derived from the following roots:
Meaning
"Downgrade" means to:
Origin
The word "downgrade" was first used in the late 14th century to describe the act of reducing the rank or status of someone. It was later used in the context of engineering, specifically to refer to the process of lowering the level of a road or railway. In the early 1900s, the term began to be used more broadly in everyday language to describe any type of reduction or lowering.
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