relegated
Pushed to obscurity
Relegated means sent down to a less important or less prominent position.
In British football, a team is relegated when it drops from a higher league to a lower one.
More broadly, to relegate something is to assign it to an inferior category or status: The project was relegated to the back burner.
Often implies dismissal or demotion: She was relegated to a minor role.
Lower someone's position
- dropFall or release
- benchShared seating surface
- send downDismiss from university
- transferMove between locations
second-tier · minor-league · second-string · reserve · bottom-tier · standings · ladder · table
Lower someone's position
- downgradeReduce in status
- degradeLower in standing
- lowerReduce or move downward
- reduceMake smaller in degree
diminish · declass · devalue · depreciate · debase · dethrone · unseat · displace
demote
Lower someone's position
transfer · second-tier · minor-league · second-string · reserve · bottom-tier · standings · ladder · table · division
demote
Lower someone's position
reduce · diminish · declass · devalue · depreciate · debase · dethrone · unseat · displace · supplant
banish
Officially send away
consign · cast out · remove · dismiss · dispatch · send away · shunt · discard · outcast · exclude
assign
Give as responsibility
hand over · pass on · entrust · commit · allocate · dispatch · redirect · reassign · channel · route
- Soccergoal, soccer, pass, football, goalkeeper
- sidelinedbenched, shelved, sidetracked, put on hold, on hold
- Hierarchy termspecking order, junior, chain of command, secondary, totem pole
relegatedprioritized
Ordered by importance
foregrounded · highlighted · emphasized · featured · centered
- relegation zoneLeague table's danger area