relegated

American  

[rel-i-gey-tid] / ˈrɛl ɪˌgeɪ tɪd /

adjective

1. sent or consigned to a lower position, place, or condition.

   Over time, after the people’s uprising, reports of human rights violations became a relegated segment of evening news.

2. (of a task or other matter) consigned or committed to someone to take care of.

   Besides these relegated duties that the Chair performs on behalf of the committee, the Chair is also expected to keep abreast of new regulatory trends.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of relegate.

Other Word Forms

• unrelegated adjective

Etymology

Origin of relegated

relegate ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

And it survived the COVID-19 pandemic, with cooks sweating at the grill behind masks and customers relegated to the patio.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

The club was relegated to the Championship at the end of the 2018-2019 season and then plummeted further to League One in April 2025.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

Meanwhile, he and others relegated Huerta to sidekick status, both in the trenches and in the public — and the image makers followed his lead.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

“He’s going to be relegated to going down the food chain in terms of the size of the enterprise to become a CEO, if that is his aspiration.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

Her hunger for earth, the cloc-cloc of her parents' bones, the impatience of her blood as it faced Pietro Crespi's passivity were relegated to the attic of her memory.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Related Words

• consign
• entrust
• refer