Relegate

Definitions: Relegate

Relegate

Verb

1. Refer to another person for decision or judgment; "She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues".

2. Assign to a lower position; reduce in rank; "She was demoted because she always speaks up".

3. Expel, as if by official decree; "he was banished from his own country".

4. Assign to a class or kind; "How should algae be classified?" "People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms".

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

Synonyms: Relegate

Synonyms: banish (v), bar (v), break (v), bump (v), classify (v), demote (v), kick downstairs (v), pass on (v), submit (v). (additional references)

Antonym: promote (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Ejection	Turn out of doors, turn out of house and home; evict, oust; unhouse, unkennel; dislodge; unpeople, dispeople; depopulate; relegate, deport.
Exclusion	Xclude, bar; leave out, shut out, bar out; reject, repudiate, blackball; lay apart, put apart, set apart, lay aside, put aside; relegate, segregate; throw overboard; strike off, strike out; neglect; banish; (seclude); separate.; (disjoin).
Transference	Send, delegate, consign, relegate, turn over to, deliver; ship, embark; waft; shunt; transpose; (interchange); displace; throw; drag; mail, post.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Relegate

English words defined with "relegate": classify ♦ marginalise, marginalize ♦ pass on ♦ Relegated ♦ submit. (references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Peru	Failure would relegate Peru to status as a marginal and relatively remote market that offers niche opportunities to some U.S. businesses, but a limited and problem-plagued business environment, generally. (references)
Minorities	Peru	The law prohibits newspaper employment advertisements from specifying the race of the candidates sought, but employers often find discreet ways to relegate blacks to low-paying service jobs. (references)
Women	Vietnam	International NGO's and other international organizations regard the Union as effective, but they and Women's Union representatives believe that much time is required to overcome societal attitudes that relegate women to lower status than men. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Relegate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 78.38% of the time. "Relegate" is used about 37 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
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	78.38%	29	64,444
Lexical Verb (base form)	21.62%	8	124,375
Total	100.00%	37	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "relegate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shkarkoj (debark, disburden, discharge, disembark, dismiss, divest, exonerate, free, land, offload, set free, unburden, unlade, unload), largoj (avert, avoid, brush away, brush off, call off, cast out, despatch, dislodge, dismiss, dispatch, dispel, divert, eliminate, estrange, freeze out, keep away, keep off, lead off, lift out, pack off, push aside, push away, push off, put off, remove, seclude, stave off, take away, turn, wean, whiffle), heq (abate, abolish, avert, bereave, blow, call off, cast, clear away, clear out, cross, cut off, cut out, deduct, delete, derogate, detach, detrude, dislodge, dismiss, dismount, divest, do away with, doff, drag, draw, drop, eject, eliminate, erase, exhaust, expel, exscind, extract, gather in, generate, get off, jump, keep off, kill, lift, lift off, move off, off with, omit, oust, peel back, pick off, pull at, pull off, pull out, put aside, put off, remove, save, scour, scratch, scratch off, scratch out, shake out, shed, skim, skip, soothe, spay, strike off, strip, subtract, swing, take away, take off, take out, tear away, throw out, turn away, undergo, unhang, unhook, unpin, unstring), drejtoj (address, administer, administrate, aim, aim at, align, Aline, bend, boss, canalize, Cann, carry on, chair, channel, command, con, conduct, direct, drive, funnel, govern, guide, head, keep, lead, level, manage, navigate, operate, order, pilot, point, preside, rectify, refer, rein, rule, set, shirk, shoot, show, shunt, superintend, supervise, tend, train, unbend, vector), dërgoj (cable, consign, delegate, deliver, despatch, detach, direct, dispatch, refer, send, send off, set forth, set off, transmit). (various references)

Arabic		‏نفى (banish, be exiled, deny, disclaim, exile, expatriate, gainsay, proscribe, transport), ‏نزل الى مرتبة أدني, ‏نزل الى الدرجة الثانية, ‏نبذ (cashier, centrifuge, dereliction, discard, dismiss, dismissal, forsake, reject, rejection, reprobate, scrap, slough, throw away), ‏قصا (drive away, knock out, mop up, stump, take away), ‏غرب (droop, set, westernize), ‏حال مسألة مهمة لشخص آخر, ‏عزل (cut off, depose, deposition, disengage, displacement, excommunicate, excommunication, gaol, insulate, isolate, isolation, jail, recall, seclude, segregate, segregation, sequester, taboo), ‏أنحى, ‏أبعد (alien, alienate, bounce, deport, distance, drive away, drive out, estrange, exclude, far, farther, hold off, oust, out of the way, outmost, preclude, send, send packing, stave off, supplant, take away, throw out, transport, ulterior, ultimate, warn off). (various references)

Bulgarian		свеждам (cast down, droop, reduce), захвърлям (discard, fling, forsake, hurl, plunk, shelve, throw down, throw off), заточавам (exile, proscribe), пращам (dispatch, send, ship off), понижавам (abase, abate, degrade, demote, disgrace, flatten, impair, lower, reduce, sing flat, whittle away), изхвърлям (bounce, cast aside, cast away, detrude, discharge, dump, ejaculate, eject, excrete, expel, out, project, push out, put out, reject, sack, shoot out, spew, spill, spirt, spurt, throw, throw out, throw up, thrust forth, tip, turf out, vomit, whop), изпращам (consign, delegate, deliver, dismiss, dispatch, get off, pack off, see, see off, send, send off, send on, send out, ship, wing). (various references)

Chinese		貶謫 (banish from the court), 贬谪 (Relegated, relegating). (various references)

Czech		vypovìdìt (annul, banish, declare, denounce, deport, discontinue, exile, expel, outlaw, proscribe, terminate, warn, warn off), propustit (discharge, dismiss, displace, let off, let out, remove, sack, turn away, turn off, unbend), degradovat (bust, degrade, demote, displume, downgrade, reduce). (various references)

Farsi		منتسب کردن (Refer), موکول کردن (Postpone), محول کردن (Devolve, Vest), واگذارکردن (Abandon, Abdicate, Admit, Assign, Cede, Concede, Entrust, Give, Remise, Surrender, Title, Transfer, Vest, Yield), انداختن (Cast, Delete, Drop, Hitch, Hurl, Hurtle, Jaculate, Launch, Layaway, Omit, Put, Shovel, Sling, Slough, Souse, Throw, Thrust, Toss). (various references)

French		reléguer. (various references)

German		verweisen (admonish, expel, rebuke, refer, remit, reprove, send off, to relegate). (various references)

Greek		μεταθέτω εισ αφανή θέσιν, παραπέμπω (commit, refer, refer to), παραχωρώ εισ άλλον, υποβιβάζω (abase, degrade, demote, lower), εξορίζω (banish, deport, exile, expatriate). (various references)

Hungarian		valahová utal, számûz (banish, deport, exile, ostracize, outlaw, proscribe), eltávolít (clear away, dislodge, estrange, extract, flick off, remove, to alien, to brush aside, to clear away, to cut out, to defecate, to depose, to dislodge, to distance, to do away, to eliminate, to estrange, to expel, to extract, to obliterate, to prune away, to prune down, to replace, to sequester, to take out, to weed out, wipe off). (various references)

Italian		relegare (confine, exile), trasmettere (air, be transmitted, broadcast, carry, communicate, convey, devolve, flash, pass, pass down, pass on, relay, send, teletype, to leave, transfer, transmit). (various references)

Manx		injillaghey (change down, cheap, cheap morally, condescend, cut, cut down, debase, defer, degradation, degrade, demote, demotion, depreciate, depreciation, depress, depression, die down, humiliate, humiliation, level down, reduce, reduction, sink, step down, subdue, subject, submit, subordinate, subordination, turn down, vulgarization, vulgarize). (various references)

Pig Latin		elegateray

Portuguese		pôr de lado (lay aside, overrule, put away, put by, reserve, salt away, set apart, set aside, supersede), exilar (banish, deport, exile, exiled, expatriation, proscribe), desterrar (banish, deport, exile, go into exile, ostracize, transport), banir (ban, banish, cast out, deport, do away with, exile, expatriate, get rid of, ostracize, outlawry, proscription, remove, rusticate, sequester, taboo), afastar (abate, alienate, avert, call away, depart, deviate, dispel, displace, distract, divergence, diverting, do away with, eliminate, estrangement, fend, get rid of, hold off, keep away, keep off, lay off workers, make away, move away, obviate, remove, repel, retire, rid, separate, stagger, wean, withdraw). (various references)

Romanian		retrograda (abase, degrade, demote, reduce), remite (deliver, give, hand, remit), transfera (assign, cede, deliver, displace, remise, shift, sign off, transfer), surghiuni (banish, exile, outlaw), exila (banish, exile, expel, proscribe, withdraw). (various references)

Russian		ссылать (deport), разжаловать (degrade, lower), высылать (deport), передавать (abalienate, circulate, communicate, consign, convey, deliver, deliver over, devolve, give, hand over, hand over to, impart, leave, pass, pass on, reach, repeat, sign away, transfer, transfuse, transmit, turn over). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		proterati (banish, banishment, deport, expatriate, expel), potisnuti (expel, hold at bay, push down, repress, throw back, upstage), otpremiti (despatch, dispatch, ship). (various references)

Spanish		relegar. (various references)

Swedish		hänskjuta (refer), förflytta (change the position, dislodge, displace, move, pass, post, relocate, remove, shift, transfer, transplant, transport). (various references)

Turkish		yerinden etmek (displace, oust, remove, unseat), sürmek (apply, banish, bedaub, cast out, coat, continue, daub, distribute, drive, drive out, endure, exile, expatriate, expel, hang over, herd, last, lay on, lead, ostracize, outlaw, persist, pitchfork, roll, rub, run, slip in, smear, splash, spread, steer, stock, stream, stuff, throw out, till, tool along, transport, wipe on), sürgün etmek (banish, deport, exile, expatriate, expel, ostracize), küme düşürmek, indirmek (bash, bring down, cast down, clip, clout, clump, cut, degrade, dismount, down, draw down, drop off, dump, land, lay low, let down, lift down, lower, plant, put down, reduce, send down, set down, strike, take down, take from, take off, unlade), göndermek (address, bundle off, conjure away, consign, dispatch, expedite, forward, freight, order away, refer, remit, route, send, send away, send forth, send off, send out, ship, ship off, transmit). (various references)

Ukranian		класифікувати (assort, categorize, class, classify, distribute, group, pigeonhole, rank, sort), відсилати (bundle, order, pack off, send away, send off, ship off, trundle), передоручати. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "relegate": relegated, relegates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Relegate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: elegate, recenate, recleate, relagate, relgate, relugate, renegate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "relegate" (pronounced re"lugā't)
6	-e" l u g ā' t	delegate.
5	-l u g ā' t	obligate.
4	-u g ā' t	abrogate, castigate, congregate, corrugate, desegregate, fumigate, instigate, interrogate, investigate, irrigate, mitigate, navigate, propagate, segregate, subjugate.
3	-g ā' t	arrogate, floodgate, litigate, profligate, tailgate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: eglatere, regelate.
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-g-l-r-t"
	-1 letter: etagere, legatee.
	-2 letters: eaglet, elater, ergate, galere, gelate, legate, regale, reglet, relate, telega, tergal.
	-3 letters: aglee, aglet, agree, alert, alter, arete, argle, artel, eager, eagle, eagre, eater, egret, elate, gelee, glare, gleet, grate, great, greet, lager, laree, large, later, leger, ragee, ratel, regal, relet, retag, taler, targe, telae, terga.
	-4 letters: agee, ager, alee, earl.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-g-l-r-t"
	+1 letter: eglateres, regelated, regelates, relegated, relegates.
	+2 letters: deregulate, reregulate.
	+3 letters: deregulated, deregulates, enlargement, regrettable, reregulated, reregulates, telegrammed, telegraphed, telegrapher.
	+4 letters: decelerating, degenerately, enlargements, generalities, largehearted, outgeneraled, overregulate, regenerately, registerable, renegotiable, telegraphers, telegraphese, telegraphies.
	+5 letters: beleaguerment, electromagnet, embranglement, energetically, etherealizing, exaggeratedly, laryngectomee, overregulated, overregulates, precollegiate, stereoregular, telegrapheses, telemarketing.
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