All promotion antonyms

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• hangup — Alternative spelling of hang-up.
• avoidance — Avoidance of someone or something is the act of avoiding them.
• breakoff — an abrupt discontinuance, especially of relations
• downs — from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder.
• lockout — the temporary closing of a business or the refusal by an employer to allow employees to come to work until they accept the employer's terms.
• dead weight — A dead weight is a load which is surprisingly heavy and difficult to lift.
• burden — If you describe a problem or a responsibility as a burden, you mean that it causes someone a lot of difficulty, worry, or hard work.
• inhibitor — a person or thing that inhibits.
• cumbrance — a burden, obstacle, or hindrance
• monkey on one's back — any mammal of the order Primates, including the guenons, macaques, langurs, and capuchins, but excluding humans, the anthropoid apes, and, usually, the tarsier and prosimians. Compare New World monkey, Old World monkey.
• obstacle — something that obstructs or hinders progress.
• impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
• difficulty — the fact or condition of being difficult.
• cunctation — delay
• encumbrance — A burden or impediment.
• arrest — If the police arrest you, they take charge of you and take you to a police station, because they believe you may have committed a crime.
• fetters — Plural form of fetter.
• hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
• descent — A descent is a movement from a higher to a lower level or position.
• deadweight — (of a shot) leaving the other balls in the ideal position
• obstruction — something that obstructs, blocks, or closes up with an obstacle or obstacles; obstacle or hindrance: obstructions to navigation.
• dam — A dam is a wall that is built across a river in order to stop the water flowing and to make a lake.
• nonsuccess — Absence of success; failure.
• hang up — the way in which a thing hangs.
• embolus — A blood clot, air bubble, piece of fatty deposit, or other object that has been carried in the bloodstream to lodge in a vessel and cause an embolism.
• bilboes — a long iron bar with two sliding shackles, formerly used to confine the ankles of a prisoner
• deflation — Deflation is a reduction in economic activity that leads to lower levels of industrial output, employment, investment, trade, profits, and prices.
• logjam — an immovable pileup or tangle of logs, as in a river, causing a blockage.
• nonfulfillment — neglect or failure to fulfill or carry out as required.
• weir — a small dam in a river or stream.
• cutoff — A cutoff or a cutoff point is the level or limit at which you decide that something should stop happening.
• blank wall — an impassable barricade or obstacle; a situation in which further progress is impossible: Attempts to get information by questioning the neighbors ran into a blank wall.
• blockade — A blockade of a place is an action that is taken to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving it.
• cropper — a person who cultivates or harvests a crop
• hold-up — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• obviation — to anticipate and prevent or eliminate (difficulties, disadvantages, etc.) by effective measures; render unnecessary: to obviate the risk of serious injury.
• frustration — act of frustrating; state of being frustrated: the frustration of the president's efforts.
• comedown — If you say that something is a comedown, you think that it is not as good as something else that you have just done or had.
• downcome — a downcomer.
• disincentive — something that discourages or deters; deterrent: High interest rates and government regulations are disincentives to investment.
• demurral — the act or an instance of demurring
• milldam — a dam built in a stream to furnish a head of water for turning a mill wheel.
• millpond — a pond for supplying water to drive a mill wheel.
• walkout — a strike by workers.
• cooling-off period — A cooling-off period is an agreed period of time during which two sides with opposing views try to resolve a dispute before taking any serious action.
• degradation — You use degradation to refer to a situation, condition, or experience which you consider shameful and disgusting, especially one which involves poverty or immorality.
• clog — When something clogs a hole or place, it blocks it so that nothing can pass through.
• bar — A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks.
• infarct — a localized area of tissue, as in the heart or kidney, that is dying or dead, having been deprived of its blood supply because of an obstruction by embolism or thrombosis.
• infarction — the formation of an infarct.