词汇 | relegate |
释义 | relegate verb[ T ] uk /ˈrel.ɪ.ɡeɪt/ us /ˈrel.ə.ɡeɪt/ to put someone or something into a lower or less important rank or position: 贬职;使降级;降低…的地位 She resigned when she was relegated to a desk job.因被降职做文书,她就辞了职。 The story was relegated to the middle pages of the paper.这篇报道从重要版面撤下,刊登在中间的版面上。 UK If a football team is relegated, it is moved down to a lower division: 使(足球队)降级 If Southampton lose again they may be relegated from the Premier League to the First Division.如果南安普敦队再输掉比赛的话,就要从英超降级到英甲了。 Compare promote(RAISE) Promoting staff aggrandizement anointment ascend ascension career ladder downgrade someone/something to something elevate elevation enthrone exalt fast track Peter Principle promote promotion reinstall reinstallation subordinate waiver wilderness wilderness yearsidiom You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Football/soccer relegate | American Dictionaryrelegate verb[ T ] fmlus/ˈrel·ɪˌɡeɪt/ to put something or someone into a lower or less important rank or position: In the past when African-American men worked as sailors aboard ships, they were often relegated to jobs as cooks and stewards. Examples of relegaterelegate In this part, computational methods are relegated to the background, and the focus is on the economics. Nationalism relegates religion to a secondary, and even inessential, principle of a stable and legitimate political order and thus challenges traditionalist conservatism. In this economic framework, which is unfamiliar to the clinician, the level of current disability is relegated to a subsidiary position. One result was that certain elitist and patriarchal practices found in rural society were replicated in church settings, relegating women to subservient and passive roles. The wider impacts of experiencing a language and communication problem have often been relegated to the educational domains. In this scheme, dissolution was relegated to the status of an instrumental first step that facilitates combinative activity. Women were relegated to a subordinate position in society. Spatially peripheralizing the burial site, relegating the fallen revolutionaries to the urban edge, reduced its significance in the city's symbolic landscape. At the same time, public meeting places, notably the zango, were devalued and relegated to the interior of individual houses. Therefore, societies with non-inscribed representations of the past had been relegated to 'historyless' societies. While military procurements were important, diplomatic niceties such as recognition were relegated to a lesser sphere. We have not calculated this correction and have relegated the effect of large viscosity ratios to the numerical investigation that is reported in 995-6. Here again psychologists can work together with biologists to understand behavior that might otherwise be relegated to the category of irrational biases. In other words, such behavior is obnoxious, subject to public criticism, and relegated to physicians who provide a "diagnosis" for it. Despite all their efforts, they were relegated to the wings and to small bit parts. See all examples of relegate These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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