relegate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To move someone or something to a lower or less important position.

   After the argument, his ideas were relegated to the bottom of the list.

2. 2
   verb

   To move a sports team down to a lower division.

   The club was relegated after losing its final match of the season.

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”).

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