0 present participle of relegate --
1 to put someone or something into a lower or less important rank or position: --
Defending one’s national champions in the short term generally leads, in the longer term, to relegating them to the second division.
But many of the students are relegating class music teaching to one of their lowest choices of career for reasons that are, in a sense, the 'wrong' ones.
Simply relegating the effects of religion to regional dummy variables fails to provide an accurate assessment of religion's importance.
It provided opportunities to develop a reputation for leadership for only a few students, relegating the remainder of the cadets to a supporting role at best.
One problem with these boundaries is their static character, which was caused, for instance, by relegating all contrary evidence about them into the footnotes of modern research papers.
Denying, therefore, does not mean reducing the informative load and interest of the utterance or relegating it to the background.
This approach seems overly simplistic, however, and relegating morphosyntax to the background in this question does not really help to solve the problem of word classes.
As the development intensifies, key activities are located in relation to a new major route, relegating the original roads to a secondary role.
