relegated

[rel-i-gey-tid]

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.

verb

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

Other Word Forms

• unrelegated adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of relegated¹

relegate ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

We've compared the promoted teams with the relegated sides they replaced.

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When Liverpool were relegated from the WSL in 2020, criticism over a lack of investment in the women's team was rife.

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Chilton decided that he couldn’t and relegated him to his old role of analyzing companies for the guy who actually made the investment decisions.

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For now, the reporters are relegated to lower press — where a wrangler admitted in writing that they cannot speak on the record for the administration.

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They finished 15th in Premier League, their worst performance since the 1973-74 campaign in which they were relegated from the top flight.

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Related Words

• consign 
• entrust 
• refer