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1. Refer to another person for decision or judgment
   "She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues";
   - pass on, submit
    
2. Assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
   "She was relegated because she always speaks up";
   - demote, bump, break, kick downstairs
    
3. Expel, as if by official decree
   "he was relegated from his own country";
   - banish, bar
    
4. Assign to a class or kind
   "People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms";
   - classify

Derived forms: relegating, relegates, relegated

See also: reach

Type of: assign, attribute, delegate, depute, designate, expel, kick out [informal], submit, throw out