relegate
Verb
- refer to another person for decision or judgment; “She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues”
- Synonyms
- Less specific
- Related
- delegating
- delegation
- relegating
- relegation
- deputation
- delegating
- delegation
- relegating
- relegation
- deputation
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank; “She was demoted because she always speaks up”; “He was broken down to Sergeant”
- Synonyms
- demote
- bump
- break
- kick downstairs
- Antonyms
- promote
- upgrade
- advance
- kick upstairs
- raise
- elevate
- Less specific
- delegate
- designate
- depute
- assign
- More specific
- See also
- murder
- slay
- hit
- dispatch
- bump off
- off
- polish off
- remove
- Related
- expel, as if by official decree; “he was banished from his own country”
- Synonyms
- Less specific
- More specific
- Related
- relegation
- banishment
- proscription
- assign to a class or kind; “How should algae be classified?”; “People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms”
- Synonyms
- Less specific
- Related
- classificatory
- class
- division
- class
- stratum
- social class
- socio-economic class
- class
- category
- family
- classification
- categorization
- categorisation
- classification
- categorization
- categorisation
- sorting
- categorization
- categorisation
- classification
- compartmentalization
- compartmentalisation
- assortment
- classifier
- classifier
- class
- relegation