relegate

relegate
    v 1: refer to another person for decision or judgment; "She
         likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues"
         [syn: {relegate}, {pass on}, {submit}]
    2: assign to a lower position; reduce in rank; "She was demoted
       because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to
       Sergeant" [syn: {demote}, {bump}, {relegate}, {break}, {kick
       downstairs}] [ant: {advance}, {elevate}, {kick upstairs},
       {promote}, {raise}, {upgrade}]
    3: expel, as if by official decree; "he was banished from his
       own country" [syn: {banish}, {relegate}, {bar}]
    4: assign to a class or kind; "How should algae be classified?";
       "People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms" [syn:
       {relegate}, {classify}]
    

Relegate \Rel"e*gate\ (r?l"?-g?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Relegated} (-g?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Relegating}.] [L.
   relegatus, p. p. of relegare; pref. re- re- + legare to send
   with a commission or charge. See {Legate}.]
   To remove, usually to an inferior position; to consign; to
   transfer; specifically, to send into exile; to banish.
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         It [the Latin language] was relegated into the study of
         the scholar.                             --Milman.
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72 Moby Thesaurus words for "relegate":
      accredit, assign, ban, banish, bar, bar out, blackball, blockade,
      cast out, charge, commend, commit, confide, consign, count out,
      credit, cut, cut off, debar, delegate, demote, deport,
      disfellowship, dispatch, displace, downgrade, embargo, enfeoff,
      entrust, exclude, excommunicate, exile, expatriate, expel,
      extradite, freeze out, fugitate, give in charge, give in trust,
      hand over, ignore, infeudate, keep out, lag, leave out, lock out,
      omit, ostracize, outlaw, pass on, pass over, preclude, prohibit,
      proscribe, refer, reject, remand, remit, repudiate, rusticate,
      send away, send down, send to Coventry, shut out, snub, spurn,
      taboo, thrust out, transfer, transport, trust, turn over