Usually means: Assigns to a lower position.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. relegates: Merriam-Webster
  2. relegates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. relegates: Vocabulary.com
  4. relegates: Wordnik
  5. relegates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. relegates: Wiktionary
  7. relegates: Dictionary.com
  8. relegates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. relegates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. relegates: Legal dictionary

(Note: See relegate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (relegate)

verb:  Exile, banish, remove, or send away.
verb:  (transitive, done to a person) Exile or banish to a particular place.
verb:  (reflexive, obsolete, rare) Remove (oneself) to a distance from something or somewhere.
verb:  (transitive, historical, Ancient Rome, done to a person) Banish from proximity to Rome for a set time; compare relegate.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) Remove or send to a place far away.
verb:  (transitive, in extended use) Consign or assign.
verb:  Consign (a person or thing) to a place, position, or role of obscurity, insignificance, oblivion, lower rank or (especially) inferiority.
verb:  Assign (a thing) to an appropriate place or situation based on appraisal or classification.
verb:  (sports, chiefly soccer) Transfer (a sports team) to a lower-ranking league division.
verb:  (transitive) Refer or submit.
verb:  Refer (a point of contention) to an authority in deference to the judgment thereof.
verb:  Submit (something) to someone else for appropriate action thereby; compare delegate.
verb:  (now rare) Submit or refer (someone) to someone or something else for some reason or purpose.
noun:  (history, obsolete) A person who has been banished from proximity to Rome for a set time, but without losing his civil rights.
adjective:  (archaic) Relegated; exiled.
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