relegation
assignment or banishment to an inferior position, place, rank, or condition:Many factors are responsible for the relegation of disabled people to the margins of society.The pending legislation shows the relegation of environmental concerns toward the bottom of the priority list in energy politics.
Soccer. demotion to a lower playing league or division based on a team’s record:The European leagues are a meritocratic hierarchy connected by promotion and relegation.
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How to use relegation in a sentence
Once relegated to table scraps, many furry companions have transcended the offerings of the supermarket dry goods aisle to eat more like humans do.
These temporal landmarks, the researchers wrote, “act as the start of new mental accounting periods which help us to relegate past imperfections to a previous period and to take a big picture view of our lives, thus motivating aspirational behavior.”
Innovation can’t be top down or relegated to the corporate tower.
‘Leaders who lacked empathy struggled in 2020’: Agency chiefs discuss leadership transformation | Jessica Davies | January 4, 2021 | DigidayFirst you had to choose which two points belonged in the cycle of two, while the remaining three points were then relegated to the cycle of three.
How High Can You Count With Menorah Math? | Zach Wissner-Gross | December 11, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightThis relegates physics to the previous century — the golden days when the revolutions of relativity and quantum mechanics shook the world, and the discoveries of elementary particles led to a string of Nobel Prizes.
Our bookstores would surely be more drab and austere in their absence or their relegation to the annals of world literature.
Why the Man Booker Prize Is More Necessary Than Ever | Liam Hoare | October 15, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTHence through the ages, the unconscious relegation of certain presents as acceptable only from certain people.
Man and Maid | Elinor GlynBut with what quick response of fine pity such a relegation of the man himself made me privately sigh “Ah poor Saltram!”
The Coxon Fund | Henry JamesHis having taken the same great step in the same free way had not in the least involved the relegation of his daughter.
The Golden Bowl | Henry JamesThen he tells how, as in relegation he was studying verse, suddenly a thunderclap came into his solitude.
The Browning Cyclopdia | Edward BerdoeIn fact the relegation of peers to the ordinary livery colours for their mantlings is, in England, quite a modern practice.
A Complete Guide to Heraldry | Arthur Charles Fox-Davies
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