to relegate

Examples

• All

• And they would have relegated empirical and causal claims to an inferior status.

• In the West, occult practices are marginalized and relegated to pagan traditions or the mystical aspects of religious traditions.

  Academic text (2013)

• The place of women is relegated to the home, to the children, to the backyard garden.

  Fiction book (2001)

• So our point was not to relegate spouses without biological ties.

  Blog text (13)

• So I don't think they have to be relegated to one form.

• The legumes were relegated to a separate section.

  Fiction book (1998)

• Historically, people of color, including American Indians, have been relegated to the category of "menial laborers," or even servants.

  Academic text (2005)

• Northerners believed that these laws, called "Black Codes," were meant to relegate freed African Americans to second-class social status by forcing them to live, essentially, as slaves.

  Academic text (2017)

• European elements at the Qing court generally have been relegated to the category of mere decorations, not central to the stylistic development of mainstream Chinese art.

  Academic text (2014)

• The new policy will relegate low-performing students to special support classes.

Synonyms

C

to classify

vsto relegate

110 3.4

To put people or things into groups based on shared features

places items into categories without implying an ordering process

A

to assign

vsto relegate

89 3.1

Decide the group, place, or role something belongs to in a system

places things into a category without focusing on system rules

C

to categorize

vsto relegate

• US

59 3.5

To put things or people into groups by what they have in common

places items into a class without stressing feature-based sorting

R

to reclassify

vsto relegate

8 5.7

Put something into a different group when new information appears

places items into a class without implying a change from previous category

P

to put down as

vsto relegate

5 4.3

To register someone for an activity or list and give them a specific role

places someone in a class without requiring official registration

R

to relabel

vsto relegate

3 3.4

To give something a new name

places items into categories by role or group rather than only changing their name

S

to subclassify

vsto relegate

7.3

To put something into a smaller group inside a larger one

places items at a general category level rather than into narrower subgroups

R

to recategorize

vsto relegate

• US

5.8

To put something into a different group

places things into a category without implying it was moved from another

How Specific

to relegate

4 7.3

to classify

110 3.4

to place

∞ 1.0

to group

38 1.2

to lump

61 6.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology