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 Words From

• un·rel·e·gat·ed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of relegated¹

relegate ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

In fact, if Cincinnati does win out, BYU probably will be relegated to a second-tier bowl even if it, too, is undefeated.

From Washington Post

Yet that temporal component has usually been relegated to the periphery of reinforcement-learning models.

From Nautilus

Eventually, after his retirement in 1988, McConnell faded from view, and his work was relegated to the sidebars of textbooks as a curious but cautionary tale.

From Nautilus

Reporting can be resource-intensive, which is why it is so surprising when the final products are often relegated to obscure webpages upon release.

From Fortune

While retail behemoths like Walmart and Home Depot had to quickly pivot to keep shopping in-store safe for their customers, McKenna and Campbell don’t think that increased focus on health and wellbeing will be relegated just to pandemic times.

From Fortune

Selma becomes a biopic in which the hero shines while those who worked beside him are overlooked or relegated to the sidelines.

From The Daily Beast

ESPN's SportsNation compiled a Derek Jeter dating diamond, and Mariah Carey and Jessica Alba were relegated to the outfield.

From The Daily Beast

By the 1940s, the box had disappeared from the show circuit entirely and was relegated to the rumor mill.

From The Daily Beast

We basically are relegated to being varying degrees of “bad” in project after project.

From The Daily Beast

He relegated his vice president, meanwhile, to a group of “some hardworking, effective…people around me…and I love them to death.”

From The Daily Beast

In order to keep the page free from footnotes and references these are relegated to an appendix following each chapter.

From Project Gutenberg

Even when a separation had been effected his tormentor persecuted him still, until she was relegated to a madhouse.

From Project Gutenberg

The library set, its antique bookcases and desks curling up toward the ceiling, must be relegated to the attic.

From Project Gutenberg

A small detail which, in the calculation of the shrewd Pope, had been relegated to comparative unimportance.

From Project Gutenberg

It was clumsy and unwieldy and was soon relegated to its place among the failures of previous experiments.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• consign
• entrust
• refer