relegate

CEFRC1

/ˈɹɛlɪˌɡeɪt/

verb

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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After finishing second-bottom in the table, United were relegated from the division.
Eventually his freedom of speech drove Vespasian to relegate him a second time, and shortly after he was executed […].
Our correspondent adds that, when he visited Rouen in 1910, the engine had been relegated to the shuttle service between Rouen (Rive Droite) and Rouen (Rive Gauche).

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Eventually his freedom of speech drove Vespasian to relegate him a second time, and shortly after he was executed […].
2002, Mark Morford, The Roman Philosophers, →ISBN, page 183
Our correspondent adds that, when he visited Rouen in 1910, the engine had been relegated to the shuttle service between Rouen (Rive Droite) and Rouen (Rive Gauche).
1946 November and December, “A Veteran French Tank Engine”, in Railway Magazine, page 382
A Class 158 relegated from express duties turns up to transport me via the flower-bedecked Brighouse station to the trans-Pennine main line at Bradley Junction and onwards to Huddersfield.
2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 57

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First attested in 1561, borrowed from Latin relēgātus, the past participle of relēgō (“to dispatch, banish”).