Question

relegate First-year students were relegated to the back of the line so that all the upper classes could eat first. ˈrɛləˌgeɪt

Accepted Answer

(1) To remove or assign to a less important place. (2) To refer or hand over for decision or for carrying out. Originally relegate meant “to send into exile, banish.” So when you relegate an old sofa to the basement, you're sending it to home-decorating Siberia. When confronted with a matter that no one really wants to face, a chief executive may relegate it to a committee “for further study,” which may manage to ignore it for years. It may be annoying to read a newspaper article about a pet project and find that your own contributions have been relegated to a short sentence near the end

word	relegate
definition	(1) To remove or assign to a less important place. (2) To refer or hand over for decision or for carrying out.
eg_sentence	First-year students were relegated to the back of the line so that all the upper classes could eat first.
explanation	Originally relegate meant “to send into exile, banish.” So when you relegate an old sofa to the basement, you're sending it to home-decorating Siberia. When confronted with a matter that no one really wants to face, a chief executive may relegate it to a committee “for further study,” which may manage to ignore it for years. It may be annoying to read a newspaper article about a pet project and find that your own contributions have been relegated to a short sentence near the end
IPA	ˈrɛləˌgeɪt

Relegate Relegated Remove Assign Important Place Refer Hand