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relegated

[rel-i-gey-tid]

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adjective

sent or consigned to a lower position, place, or condition.
Over time, after the people’s uprising, reports of human rights violations became a relegated segment of evening news.
(of a task or other matter) consigned or committed to someone to take care of.
Besides these relegated duties that the Chair performs on behalf of the committee, the Chair is also expected to keep abreast of new regulatory trends.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of relegate.

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Other Word Forms

unrelegated adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of relegated¹

relegate ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

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Plymouth were relegated to the third tier last season after an ill-fated return to the Championship.

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Currently, only the WSL 2 winners earn promotion, with the bottom club in the WSL relegated - essentially one up and one down.

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So long as Latinos remain silenced, ostracized and relegated to the periphery in conversations about the future of this nation, that future remains bleak.

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Already relegated after six defeats on the spin amid a tricky transition - all before their plane problems - there was a worry the Dutch could hand out a serious lesson.

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Given founding members of the competition could not be 'relegated' from it, critics argued the tournament was a closed book for Europe's elite teams.

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