Relegation

Definitions: Relegation

Relegation

Noun

1. Authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions.

2. Mild banishment; consignment to an inferior position; "he has been relegated to a post in Siberia".

Date "relegation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

Synonyms: Relegation

Synonyms: delegating (n), delegation (n), deputation (n), relegating (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Ejection	Deportation; banishment; (punishment ); rouge's march; relegation, extradition; dislodgment.
Transference	Noun: transfer, transference; translocation, elocation; displacement; metastasis, metathesis; removal; remotion, amotion; relegation; deportation, asportation; extradition, conveyance, draft, carrying, carriage; convection, conduction, contagion; transfer; (of property).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Relegation

Non-English Usage: "Relegation" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

German (expulsion).

Domain	Title
Books	Relegation and stock control in libraries (reference) Stock relegation practice in major academic libraries in north-east England : proceedings of a seminar held at Teesside Polytechnic Library on April 22nd, 1982 (reference) The relegation and storage of material in academic libraries a literature review (reference) Time factor classification and relegation final report for the period August 1978-December 1981 : report to the British Library Research and Development Department on Project SI/G/258 (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Relegation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Relegation" is used about 474 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	474	12,500

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "relegation": relegation-fighting, relegation-haunted, relegation-safety, relegation-threatened.
	Ending with "relegation": promotion-relegation.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "relegation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		heqje (abolition, clearing, collection, deduction, Defeasance, deletion, deprivation, derogation, dismissal, dismission, disposal, dispossession, ejection, elimination, evacuation, excision, extirpation, extraction, jump, omission, out, outage, privation, recall, removal, rending, resection, reserve, skip, stripping, subtraction, tripping), dëbim (banishment, deportation, eviction, excision, exclusion, excommunication, exile, expulsion, proscription). (various references)

Arabic		‏نفي (banishment, denial, deportation, disclaimer, negation, transportation), ‏تغريب, ‏طرد في الرياضة, ‏إنزال الى مرتبة دنيا, ‏إبعاد (alienation, banishment, drop, exclusion, exile, proscription, transportation). (various references)

Bulgarian		свеждане (droop, reduction), захвърляне (dereliction, discard, fling), заточение (exile), понижение (cut, degradation, depression, descent, falling, lowering, reduction), изхвърляне (disposal, ejaculation, ejection, ejectment, excretion, outing, projection, spilth, toss). (various references)

Czech		vypovìzení (banishment, declaration, deportation, renunciation), sestup (descent), propuštìní (discharge, dismissal, dismission, release), degradování. (various references)

Danish		indplacering paa et lavere loen (relegation in step). (various references)

Dutch		plaatsing in een lagere salaristrap (relegation in step). (various references)

French		relégation. (various references)

German		Verweisung an. (various references)

Greek		μετάθεση (cross joint, cross-joint, displacement, metathesis, mismatch, permutation, rearrangement, relocation, removal, shift, throw, transfer, transposition, variation), υποβιβασμόσ (abasement, degradation, demotion), εξόριση, ανάθεση εισ άλλο. (various references)

Hebrew		�"ור�"�" ב�"ר�'�" (demotion). (various references)

Hungarian		számûzetés (banishment, exile, ostracism, proscription), kitiltás (ban), félretétel (reservation), deportálás (deportation, transportation). (various references)

Italian		relegazione (constraint). (various references)

Pig Latin		elegationray

Portuguese		relegação, ostracismo (limburger, ostracism), envio a outra pessoa, desterro (banishment, deportation, exile, expect, transportation), banimento (ban, banishment, deportation, exile, outlawry, proscription), ação de pôr de lado. (various references)

Romanian		retrogradare (abasement, demoting, reduction, retrogradation), remitere (delivery, giving, handing, remittance, rendering, restoration), surghiun (banishment, exile), exil (banishment, exile). (various references)

Russian		разжалование (degradation), высылка (banishment, deportation). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		proterivanje (banishment, deportation, expatriation), otpremanje (despatch, dispatch, shipping). (various references)

Spanish		relegación, descenso (decline, descent, drop, fall, landing, let down, let-down). (various references)

Swedish		hänskjutande (submission), förvisning (banishment, deportation, ejection). (various references)

Turkish		sürgün (banishment, bud, deportation, deportee, exile, expatriation, expellee, growth, ostracism, outgrowth, outlaw, outlawry, proscription, shoot, spine, spray, sprout, tiller, transport, transportation, twig), küme düşme, indirme (curtailment, degradation, landing, lowering, setdown). (various references)

Ukranian		розжалування, висилка (deportation), передача для вирішення. (various references)

Vietnamese		sự loại bỏ, sự bỏ xó. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "relegation": relegations. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Relegation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: elegation, reflotation, relagation, releagion, relegatio. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "relegation" (pronounced 'Rel`e*ga"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-i-l-n-o-r-t"
	-2 letters: aerolite, alerting, algerine, altering, elaterin, eloigner, elongate, entailer, galenite, gelatine, gelation, geraniol, gratinee, integral, interage, legatine, legation, oriental, regental, regional, relating, relation, tanglier, treenail, triangle, trigonal.
	-3 letters: aerogel, aileron, aliener, alienor, aligner, antilog, arenite, atelier, atingle, egalite, elating, elation, elegant, eloiner, engrail, enlarge, enteral, erelong, eternal, gelatin, general, genital, genitor, gentile, gentler.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-i-l-n-o-r-t"
	+1 letter: relegations.
	+2 letters: deregulation, generational, renegotiable, reregulation.
	+3 letters: deregulations, interregional, outgeneraling, reregulations.
	+4 letters: concelebrating, conglomerative, egocentrically, electroplating, estrogenically, generalisation, generalization, generationally, geocentrically, laryngectomies, nongeometrical, overregulating, overregulation, steamrollering.
	+5 letters: counterguerilla, electromagnetic, electronegative, generalisations, generalizations, governmentalism, governmentalist, governmentalize, intercollegiate, interrogatively, laryngectomized, magnetoelectric, overelaborating, overregulations, overspeculating, uncategorizable.
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