Usually means: Assign to a lower position.
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  1. relegate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. relegate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. relegate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. relegate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. relegate: Vocabulary.com
  6. relegate: Wordnik
  7. relegate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. relegate: Wiktionary
  9. relegate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. relegate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. relegate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Relegate, relegate: Dictionary.com
  13. relegate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. relegate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Relegate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. relegate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. relegate: Rhymezone
  18. relegate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. relegate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. relegate: Free Dictionary
  21. relegate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. relegate: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. relegate: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

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  1. relegate: Encyclopedia

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  1. relegate: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Relegate: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See relegated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.

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