relegate
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- v refer to another person for decision or judgment
She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues - v assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- v expel, as if by official decree
- v assign to a class or kind
People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms
- The women agitators who had taken to the street were protesting that the menfolk of the country tended to relegate women to the class of chattel.
- BOB GRAHAM Dean swiped the Florida Senator's best issue, his opposition to the war, and this helped relegate him to the second tier.
- There is some irony in the fact that this last-ditch effort to float his bid for mainstream credibility provided the very ammunition used by his critics to relegate him permanently .