relegate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   refer to another person for decision or judgment

   I like to relegate difficult questions to my colleagues.

2. 2
   verb

   Consign or assign.

   Her bright ideas were relegated to "tosh" by her manager.

3. 3
   verb

   assign to a class or kind

4. 4
   verb

   assign to a lower position

5. 5
   verb

   expel, as if by official decree

6. 6
   verb

   Exile, banish, remove, or send away.

7. 7
   verb

   Refer or submit.

8. 8
   noun

   A person who has been banished from proximity to Rome for a set time, but without losing his civil rights.

Etymology

First attested circa 1550: from the Classical Latin relēgātus (“banished person, exile”), the nominative singular masculine substantive form of relēgātus, the past participle of relēgō (“to dispatch, banish”).