relegate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: relegate	by the DICT Development Group
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
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.