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assign to a less important position or classification

Decades of slow growth have relegated the country to third-class status in international affairs.

relegated = assigned to a less important position or classification

She's been relegated to the sidelines.
She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues
The Chief Justice wrote: "We see no reason why the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment, as much a part of the Bill of Rights as the First Amendment or Fourth Amendment, should be relegated to the status of a poor relation."
Timothy Lynch -- Property Rights and "Rough Proportionality" -- http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/reg17n3-lynch.html (retrieved 06/28/06)
That evening the story had been relegated to the bottom of page one:
Stephen King -- Cujo

relegated = assigned to a less important position

Old friendships, tucked away like treasures, relegated to tokens of yesterday.
Ellen Hopkins -- Crank

relegated = assign to a less important position

It was true that Ms. Richter often solicited David's opinion while Max was relegated to the role of silent spectator.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege

relegated = assigned to a less important position

Fielding, too, had his anxieties ... but he relegated them to the edge of his mind, and forbade them to infect its core.
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India

relegated = assigned to a less important position

relegated = assigned to a less important position or classification

The little stove no longer occupied a central place; it had been relegated to a tiny spot in the corner of the room.
Laura Esquivel -- Like Water for Chocolate

relegated = assigned to a less important position or classification

Segregation ... ends up relegating persons to the status of things.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Letter from a Birmingham Jail

relegating = assigning to a less important classification

I think she never taught Isabelle how to cook because she was afraid that if she did, Isabelle would be relegated to the kitchen permanently.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones

relegated = assigned to a less important position or classification

They were relegated to competing in their own leagues,
W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game

relegated = assigned (a less important classification)

...relegates women to roles that are little more than servants and...
P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Betrayed

relegates = assigns to a less important position or classification

Or I could stay by my children's side, relegating another generation to the same misery and poverty I knew so well.
Sonia Nazario -- Enrique's Journey

relegating = assigning to a lesser position

Two minutes before, I hadn't even wanted to celebrate, but now I was feeling dejected and insulted at being relegated to a midweek dinner at the same place we always went to.
Gayle Forman -- If I Stay

relegated = assigned to a less important position or classification

He claimed that the responsibility for a decision could never be abandoned to a blind agency but could only be relegated to human decisions more and more remote from their consequences.
Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses

relegated = assigned

...for the most part she relegated Henry Chao to a kind of netherworld, in which he was not so much a person and potential threat as a spirit that could be scared off by a good loud noise.
Gish Jen -- Typical American

relegated = assigned to a less important position or classification

When she was little and her second-grade class was making necktie cards for Father's Day, she was relegated to sitting in the corner with the girl whose dad had died prematurely at age forty-two of cancer.
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes

relegated = assigned to a less important position or classification

Like the ancient Sophists, he relegates the more important principles of ethics to custom and probability.
Plato -- Meno

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