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Relegation

noun

Authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions. Synonyms: delegating, delegation, deputation, relegating.

The act of assigning (someone or something) to a particular class or category.

Mild banishment; consignment to an inferior position.

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"Relegation" Quotes from Famous Books

... by which we mean a practical, unromantic age. But is it a matter for so much pride after all? Granted that the benefits which have accrued to mankind during the past century and a half are worth all the Romance in the world; but is the relegation of Romance to the domain of History a sine qua non so far as progress is concerned? In our haste to get on we have tried to drive Romance and Progress in tandem, with steady-going Progress in the shafts; but having found ...

— The Book-Hunter at Home • P. B. M. Allan

... knew that his resources were exhausted, his energies abated, and that pardon would now merely mean a relegation to oblivion. He took his public execution with delight, as if it were a martyrdom, and had the greatness of soul to perceive that nothing could possibly commend his career and character to posterity so much as to leave this mortal stage with a telling soliloquy. ...

— Raleigh • Edmund Gosse

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