"promote to customer" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "promotes to customer",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "promoting to customer",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "promoted to customer",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "promoted to customer",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "promote to customer (third-person singular simple present promotes to customer, present participle promoting to customer, simple past and past participle promoted to customer)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English euphemisms",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, Loril M. Gossett, Julian Kilker, “My Job Sucks: Examining Counterinstitutional Web Sites as Locations for Organizational Member Voice, Dissent, and Resistance”, in Management Communication Quarterly, volume 20, number 1, →DOI, page 72",
          "text": "In the case of RadioShackSucks.com, many of the site participants reported being former employees (or in the vernacular of the Web site, employees who had been “promoted to customer”.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2022 November 17, “\"Promoted To Customer,\" Joke Amazon Employees As Brutal Layoffs Begin”, in NDTV.com:",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(euphemistic) end someone's employment"
      ],
      "id": "en-promote_to_customer-en-verb-4lzLSxG3",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) (euphemistic) end someone's employment"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "promote to customer"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "promotes to customer",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "promoting to customer",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "promoted to customer",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "promoted to customer",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "promote to customer (third-person singular simple present promotes to customer, present participle promoting to customer, simple past and past participle promoted to customer)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English euphemisms",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, Loril M. Gossett, Julian Kilker, “My Job Sucks: Examining Counterinstitutional Web Sites as Locations for Organizational Member Voice, Dissent, and Resistance”, in Management Communication Quarterly, volume 20, number 1, →DOI, page 72",
          "text": "In the case of RadioShackSucks.com, many of the site participants reported being former employees (or in the vernacular of the Web site, employees who had been “promoted to customer”.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2022 November 17, “\"Promoted To Customer,\" Joke Amazon Employees As Brutal Layoffs Begin”, in NDTV.com:",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(euphemistic) end someone's employment"
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) (euphemistic) end someone's employment"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "promote to customer"
}