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to relegate
01
to appoint a person or thing to a lower status, position, or rank
Transitive: to relegate sb to a lower rank or position
Examples
After the poor performance, the manager decided to relegate the employee to a lower position.
02
to assign or submit to a particular person for appropriate action or treatment
Ditransitive: to relegate a task to sb
Grammatical Information
Composition
derived
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
relegate
3rd person singular
relegates
Present participle
relegating
Past simple
relegated
Past participle
relegated
Examples
The manager decided to relegate the task to the team leader for further review and implementation.
03
to place or assign someone or something into a particular category
Transitive: to relegate sb/sth to a category
Examples
The librarian decided to relegate the new books to the fiction section of the library.
04
to expel or exile someone as a form of punishment
Transitive: to relegate sb | to relegate sb somewhere
Examples
The king decided to relegate the traitorous nobleman to a remote island
Lexical Tree
relegating
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