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English Dictionary: relegate |
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2 results for relegate |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- relegate
- v
- refer to another person for decision or judgment; "She
likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues"
Synonym(s): relegate, pass on, submit
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank; "She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sergeant"
Synonym(s): demote, bump, relegate, break, kick downstairs Antonym(s): advance, elevate, kick upstairs, promote, raise, upgrade
- expel, as if by official decree; "he was banished from his own country"
Synonym(s): banish, relegate, bar
- assign to a class or kind; "How should algae be classified?"; "People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms"
Synonym(s): relegate, classify
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Relegate \Rel"e*gate\ (r?l"?-g?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Relegated} (-g?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Relegating}.] [L.
relegatus, p. p. of relegare; pref. re- re- + legare to send
with a commission or charge. See {Legate}.]
To remove, usually to an inferior position; to consign; to
transfer; specifically, to send into exile; to banish.
It [the Latin language] was relegated into the study of
the scholar. --Milman.
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