relegate
Assign lower status
Relegate means to assign to a lower position, rank, or status.
A promising employee might be relegated to menial tasks after a mistake.
In British football, teams that finish at the bottom of the league are relegated to a lower division.
The word often carries a sense of dismissal or diminishment: The topic was relegated to a footnote.
Something relegated is pushed aside as less important.
Reduction in status
- downgradeReduce in status
- demoteLower someone's position
- lowerReduce or move downward
- subordinateOne lower in rank
degrade · bench · sideline · marginalize · diminish · devalue · depreciate · debase
Assign to distinct groups
- classifyArrange by shared traits
- consignEntrust to another's keeping
- rankPosition in hierarchy
- sortMethod of ordering
place · position · group · tier · downgrade · reclassify · demote · label
demotion
Reduction in status
subordinate · degrade · bench · sideline · marginalize · diminish · devalue · depreciate · debase · declass
categorize
Assign to distinct groups
sort · place · position · group · tier · downgrade · reclassify · demote · label · designate
exile
Banishment from homeland
ostracize · outcast · remove · eject · oust · dispatch · send away · cast out · push aside · shunt
assign
Give as responsibility
hand off · pass down · allocate · depute · charge · commission · task · outsource · defer · refer
- declinedecline, in decline, decrease, downswing, on the decline
- delaysdelays, delay, delayed, postponement, postpone
relegateprioritize
Rank by importance
emphasize · foreground · highlight · feature · center
relegation, relegated, relegating, relegates, relegations, relegalized