Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

social promotion

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.37 in modern English

Syllables
so-cial pro-mo-tion
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

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.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

social promotions (plural)

Questions

What does social promotion mean?
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.

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