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UK
/ɹˈɛlɪɡˌeɪt/
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[ US /ˈɹɛɫəˌɡeɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɛɫəˌɡeɪt/ ]
VERB
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refer to another person for decision or judgment
She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues -
assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
He was broken down to Sergeant
She was demoted because she always speaks up -
expel, as if by official decree
he was banished from his own country -
assign to a class or kind
How should algae be classified?
People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms
How To Use relegate In A Sentence
- 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. NYT > Home Page
- 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.
- Such a proposal is distinct from pantheistic notions which equate God with the natural world, because D'Espagnat relegates the natural world - the world of space, time and matter - to what Kant referred to as the 'phenomenal' world, the world produced by the modus operandi of our minds upon the noumenal world. Archive 2009-03-01
- In the recent retrospective of Nan Kempner’s wardrobe at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, the late socialite’s closet was re-created in breathtaking detail — all 354 jackets and 362 sweaters — but her surprisingly undistinguished collection of handbags was relegated to a high shelf and mostly hidden. Carried Away
- Chiefly, such activities were processional - arrivals of ambassadors and potentates, with plebeian doings relegated to the wings.
- It is time to leave stoning as a form of capi tal punishment behind us as a race, to relegate it to the same place we have put stringing heretics on racks -- in a chapter of our past that we are not proud of. José Ramos-Horta: An Appeal for Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani
- As the present academic system is totally different, the importance of good handwriting has been relegated to the background.
- Draft after draft was relegated to the wastepaper basket.
- While trainers have always been the mainstay of streetwear, the fash pack had previously relegated them to the gym bag. Times, Sunday Times