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RELATED WORDS : corner kick dolphin kick flutter kick free kick frog kick kick kick about kick around kick back kick down kick downstairs kick in kick in the butt kick off kick one's heels kick out kick pleat kick start kick starter kick the bucket kick turn kick up onside kick place kick scissors kick swimming kick upstairs

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb kick upstairs has 1 sense

• kick upstairs(v = verb.social) advance, elevate, promote, raise, upgrade - give a promotion to or assign to a higher position; "John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired"; "Women tend not to advance in the major law firms"; "I got promoted after many years of hard work"
is one way to assign, delegate, depute, designate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody

THESAURUS

kick upstairs

advance, aggrandize, boot, bounce, break, bump, bust, can, cashier, deconsecrate, defrock, degrade, demote, deplume, depose, deprive, dethrone, disbar, discharge, discrown, disemploy, disenthrone, dismiss, displace, displume, drum out, elevate, ennoble, exalt, excommunicate, expel, fire, furlough, give the ax, give the gate, graduate, kick, knight, lay off, let go, let out, liquidate, make redundant, oust, overthrow, pass, pension, pension off, prefer, promote, purge, raise, read out of, release, remove, remove from office, replace, retire, sack, separate forcibly, strip, strip of office, strip of rank, superannuate, surplus, suspend, turn off, turn out, unchurch, unfrock, unsaddle, unseat, unthrone, up, upgrade

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