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verb (used with object), rel·e·gat·ed, rel·e·gat·ing.
1.
to send or consign to an inferior position, place, or condition: He has been relegated to a post at the fringes of the diplomatic service.
2.
to consign or commit (a matter, task, etc.), as to a person: He relegates the less pleasant tasks to his assistant.
3.
to assign or refer (something) to a particular class or kind.
4.
to send into exile; banish.
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relegate
1586 "to banish, send into exile" (implied in relegation), from L. relegatus, pp. of relegare "remove, dismiss, banish," from re- "back" + legare "send with a commission" (see legate). Meaning "place in a position of inferiority" is recorded from 1790.
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