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relegate

UK/ˈɹɛlɪˌɡeɪt/US/ˈɹɛlɪˌɡeɪt/
verbC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,833 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: relegated, relegating, relegates

To relegate is to send something down to a lower rank or place. Relegate to the second division, relegate it to the attic, be relegated.

In English football it is the technical word for dropping out of a league at the end of a season. Elsewhere it means demoting or setting aside, and it usually takes to.

Definitions of relegate

  1. 1verbrelegateTo send down to a lower rank or division.C2

    “A defeat on the last day would relegate them to the third tier.”

relegate is a demoting.

Where it comes from

Latin relegare means to send away or banish, from re plus legare, to send.

  1. Latin

    relēgātus

  2. English, today

    relegate

Built from

  • relēgō · Latin — to dispatch, banish

First attested in 1561, borrowed from Latin relēgātus, the past participle of relēgō (“to dispatch, banish”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

relegate in the wild

  • Jabal Al-Mukaber won the 2009-10 Premier League while Wadi Al-Nes won the Palestine Cup with Beit Ummar and Shabab Al-Khader relegate to the first division.

    2009–10 West Bank Premier League

  • Division Two does not relegate to any league.

    Liverpool Women's & Youth Football League

  • Clubs relegate to this league from the Hoofdklasse and promote to the Eerste Klasse from the Tweede Klasse.

    Eerste Klasse (women)

  • Teams in this league promote to the Eerste Klasse and relegate to Derde Klasse.

    Tweede Klasse (women)

  • Teams in this league promote to the Tweede Klasse and relegate to the Vierde Klasse.

    Derde Klasse (women)

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.