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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

REL'EGATE, v.t. [L. relego; re and lego, to send.] To banish; to send into exile.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: refer to another person for decision or judgment; "She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues" [syn: relegate, pass on, submit]
2: assign to a lower position; reduce in rank; "She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sergeant" [syn: demote, bump, relegate, break, kick downstairs] [ant: advance, elevate, kick upstairs, promote, raise, upgrade]
3: expel, as if by official decree; "he was banished from his own country" [syn: banish, relegate, bar]
4: assign to a class or kind; "How should algae be classified?"; "People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms" [syn: relegate, classify]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-gated; -gating) Etymology: Latin relegatus, past participle of relegare, from re- + legare to send with a commission — more at legate Date: 1599 1. to send into exile ; banish 2. assign: as a. to assign to a place of insignificance or of oblivion ; put out of sight or mind b. to assign to an appropriate place or situation on the basis of classification or appraisal c. to submit to someone or something for appropriate action ; delegate d. to transfer (a sports team) to a lower ranking division Synonyms: see commit • relegation noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. 1 consign or dismiss to an inferior or less important position; demote. 2 transfer (a sports team) to a lower division of a league etc. 3 banish or send into exile. 4 (foll. by to) a transfer (a matter) for decision or implementation. b refer (a person) for information. Derivatives: relegable adj. relegation n. Etymology: L relegare relegat- (as RE-, legare send)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(relegates, relegating, relegated) 1. If you relegate someone or something to a less important position, you give them this position. Might it not be better to relegate the King to a purely ceremonial function?... VERB: V n to n 2. If a sports team that competes in a league is relegated, it has to compete in a lower division in the next competition, because it was one of the least successful teams in the higher division. (BRIT) If Leigh lose, they'll be relegated. ? promote VERB: usu passive, be V-ed • relegation Relegation to the Third Division would prove catastrophic. ? promotion

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Transfer, remove, consign, remand, despatch. 2. Banish, expatriate, exile, transport.

Moby Thesaurus

accredit, assign, ban, banish, bar, bar out, blackball, blockade, cast out, charge, commend, commit, confide, consign, count out, credit, cut, cut off, debar, delegate, demote, deport, disfellowship, dispatch, displace, downgrade, embargo, enfeoff, entrust, exclude, excommunicate, exile, expatriate, expel, extradite, freeze out, fugitate, give in charge, give in trust, hand over, ignore, infeudate, keep out, lag, leave out, lock out, omit, ostracize, outlaw, pass on, pass over, preclude, prohibit, proscribe, refer, reject, remand, remit, repudiate, rusticate, send away, send down, send to Coventry, shut out, snub, spurn, taboo, thrust out, transfer, transport, trust, turn over