Usually means: Moved to a lower position.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word relegated:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. relegated: Merriam-Webster
  2. relegated: Collins English Dictionary
  3. relegated: Vocabulary.com
  4. Relegated, relegated: Wordnik
  5. relegated: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. relegated: Wiktionary
  7. Relegated, relegated: Dictionary.com
  8. relegated: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Relegated: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Relegated: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Relegated: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. relegated: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. relegated: FreeDictionary.org
  14. relegated: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. relegated: Legal dictionary

(Note: See relegate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (relegate)

verb:  Exile, banish, remove, or send away.
verb:  (transitive, done to a person) Exile or banish to a particular place.
verb:  (reflexive, obsolete, rare) Remove (oneself) to a distance from something or somewhere.
verb:  (transitive, historical, Ancient Rome, done to a person) Banish from proximity to Rome for a set time; compare relegate.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) Remove or send to a place far away.
verb:  (transitive, in extended use) Consign or assign.
verb:  Consign (a person or thing) to a place, position, or role of obscurity, insignificance, oblivion, lower rank or (especially) inferiority.
verb:  Assign (a thing) to an appropriate place or situation based on appraisal or classification.
verb:  (sports, chiefly soccer) Transfer (a sports team) to a lower-ranking league division.
verb:  (transitive) Refer or submit.
verb:  Refer (a point of contention) to an authority in deference to the judgment thereof.
verb:  Submit (something) to someone else for appropriate action thereby; compare delegate.
verb:  (now rare) Submit or refer (someone) to someone or something else for some reason or purpose.
noun:  (history, obsolete) A person who has been banished from proximity to Rome for a set time, but without losing his civil rights.
adjective:  (archaic) Relegated; exiled.
▸ Also see relegate


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