downgrading

A downgrade; a reduction of a rating, as a financial or credit rating.

Noun

  1. A downgrade; a reduction of a rating, as a financial or credit rating.
    • Financial markets fell sharply on the news of possible downgradings. - 2007 July 11, Vikas Bajaj, “Rate Agencies Move Toward Downgrading Some Mortgage Bonds”, in New York Times:

Forms

downgradings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of downgrade