relegate

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  1. transitive verb To assign to an obscure place, position, or condition.
  2. transitive verb To assign to a particular class or category; classify. See Synonyms at commit.
  3. transitive verb To refer or assign (a matter or task, for example) for decision or action.
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  • They understood that Britain's plans to relegate the 13 colonies to hewer-of-wood and drawer-of-water status while the mother country dominated global industrial production would keep them economically destitute and politically dependent.
  • So we cannot afford to relegate climate change to the international pending tray because of our current economic difficulties. —  British Blogs
  • Why not relegate the matches involving Premier League teams to ESPN Classic and show the bigger matches on ESPN2? —  Soccer Blogs - latest posts
  • Is this just another sometimes-law we can relegate to the forgotten corners of our otherwise law-abiding minds, right next to jaywalking, or something we should really be worried about? —  Legal Blog Watch
  • Controlling the lives, dress of women, to relegate them to subordinate position, is the common agenda of fundamentalist, fascist politics, irrespective of their religion or race to which they belong. —  Communalism Watch
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  1. Middle English relegaten, to banish, from Latin relēgāre, relēgāt- : re-, re- + lēgāre, to send, depute; see leg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin relegatus, past participle of relegare (later Italian relegare =Spanish relegar =Provencal relegar, releguar =F. reléguer), send away, despatch, remove, from re-, away, back, + legare, send: see legate.
 

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