delegate vs relegate
Definitions
verb
- give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
- transfer power to someone
noun
- a person appointed or elected to represent others
Examples
When the Mexican chair of the meeting declared the talks formally closed there were whoops of delight from the African delegates.
Nationally, Republican delegates listed fiscal issues as most important by a two-to-one margin.
We have the superdelegates who are the 796 folks who are unpledged.
Definitions
verb
- refer to another person for decision or judgment
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- expel, as if by official decree
- assign to a class or kind
Examples
It also provides a condensed primer to some of the issues at stake in American avant-garde cinema, which, partly because of its historical opposition to the dictates of commercial mainstream moviemaking and partly because it resists commodification unlike, say, abstract painting, oppositional cinema doesn't rack up big sales at Sotheby's, has been relegated to the status of museum pieces and festival marginalia.
Draft after draft was relegated to the wastepaper basket.
Without a single zinger in the bunch, this comedy is gasping for laughs, and should be relegated to the $2.99 bin very soon.
