0 past simple and past participle of relegate --
1 to put someone or something into a lower or less important rank or position: --
The polarisation of society largely centred upon personal allegiance, with the result that truly ideological distinctions were relegated to secondary importance.
Women were relegated to a subordinate position in society.
In this scheme, dissolution was relegated to the status of an instrumental first step that facilitates combinative activity.
The wider impacts of experiencing a language and communication problem have often been relegated to the educational domains.
But what is so striking here is that stylized violence is relegated to the world of dance.
In this economic framework, which is unfamiliar to the clinician, the level of current disability is relegated to a subsidiary position.
Its role is relegated to a counter-factual, or alternative sequence.
It was mainstream boys who constructed the school's discursive space, while girls were relegated to secondary roles.
