relegating
Assigning lower status
Relegating is assigning something or someone to a lower rank, position, or status.
The word implies demotion or diminishment: She was relegated to a minor role after the reorganization.
In British football, a team that finishes at the bottom of its league gets relegated to a lower division.
More broadly, to relegate is to consign something to a less important place: He relegated the old furniture to the basement.
Transferring authority to another
- consigningTransferring for sale/delivery
- transferringMoving between locations
- handing offTransferring to another
- passingMoving by or temporary
entrusting · deferring · remitting · committing · dispatching · allocating · assigning · outsourcing
Forcing permanent departure
- exilingExpelling from homeland
- marginalizingPushing to the fringes
- sideliningRemoving from participation
- shelvingHorizontal storage surfaces
pigeonholing · discarding · ignoring · disregarding · brushing aside · setting aside · shunting · parking
Reducing rank or status
- loweringMoving something downward
- degradingLowering in worth
- reducingMaking less or smaller
- benchingRemoving from active play
sidelining · displacing · subordinating · dropping · moving down · depositing · stripping · busting
Lowering someone's rank
- droppingLetting something fall
- benchingRemoving from active play
- transferringMoving between locations
- bumpingLight repeated collision
moving down · second division · minor league · lower tier · reserve team · descending · downgrading · subdivision
delegating
Transferring authority to another
- consigningTransferring for sale/delivery
- transferringMoving between locations
- handing offTransferring to another
passing · entrusting · deferring · remitting · committing · dispatching · allocating · assigning · outsourcing · offloading
banishing
Forcing permanent departure
- exilingExpelling from homeland
- marginalizingPushing to the fringes
- sideliningRemoving from participation
shelving · pigeonholing · discarding · ignoring · disregarding · brushing aside · setting aside · shunting · parking · tabling
downgrading
Reducing rank or status
benching · sidelining · displacing · subordinating · dropping · moving down · depositing · stripping · busting · cashiering
demoting
Lowering someone's rank
- droppingLetting something fall
- benchingRemoving from active play
- transferringMoving between locations
bumping · moving down · second division · minor league · lower tier · reserve team · descending · downgrading · subdivision · farm team
relegatingprioritizing
Ordering by importance
emphasizing · foregrounding · highlighting · centering · featuring
- relegation zoneLeague table's danger area