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View definitions for relegates

relegates

verb as in assign, transfer

verb as in banish, downgrade

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The move relegates Miller Moss to a reserve role after nine uneven starts this season.

But the UN's latest fact-finding mission in the country says women "still live in a system that relegates them to second class citizens".

From BBC

District Judge Zahid Quraishi’s order requiring clerks to stop using the so-called county line ballot, which lists candidates with political party support in a single column and often relegates others to “ballot Siberia” will stand.

"We're not doing anything illegal. We act according to the law. As for being scared, fear mustn't prevail. I believe in what I'm doing. And this conviction relegates fear to second place."

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Bunny thrives there, but her success mainly turns her into a cog in a machine that relegates women to PR duties on greenwashing campaigns.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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