0 past simple and past participle of relegate
1 to put someone or something into a lower or less important rank or position:
This position relegated methodological oppositions existing between both approaches to the background of the discussion.
Animals relegated to lesser social positions are forced to make the best of a bad situation.
In this part, computational methods are relegated to the background, and the focus is on the economics.
What suited the dominant pattern became significant news; what was uncomfortable was either not stated or relegated to the inside pages.
Paradoxically, in a country where the female has been relegated to a very subordinate position, this highest tribute was paid to feminine power.
Furthermore, there is no distinction between parallel, sequential and iterative activities-all are relegated to the control functions and handled equally well.
Moreover, the tediously long quotes could have been considerably truncated, eliminated, or relegated to footnotes.
It was mainstream boys who constructed the school's discursive space, while girls were relegated to secondary roles.
