promote(RAISE)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Promoting staff
aggrandizement
anointment
ascend
ascension
career ladder
downgrade someone/something to something
elevate
enthrone
exalt
fast track
Peter Principle
promote
promotion
reinstall
reinstallation
relegate
subordinate
waiver
wilderness
wilderness yearsidiom

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Football/soccer

Examples of relegating

relegating

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

It became customary to present definitions before examples and build general results first, relegating concrete applications to witty exercises.
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.
Spatially peripheralizing the burial site, relegating the fallen revolutionaries to the urban edge, reduced its significance in the city's symbolic landscape.
The central part takes up much more space (around 2), relegating the other parts to the roles of introduction (around 40) and conclusion (around 40).
Seeing triadic interactions as the epicenter of development does not necessitate relegating cultural variability to the sidelines.
Commercial and political spotlights are shining brightly on xenotransplantation, at least temporarily relegating safer policy options to the shadows.
We disagree with relegating ecological validity to this secondary role.
As the development intensifies, key activities are located in relation to a new major route, relegating the original roads to a secondary role.
This approach seems overly simplistic, however, and relegating morphosyntax to the background in this question does not really help to solve the problem of word classes.
Denying, therefore, does not mean reducing the informative load and interest of the utterance or relegating it to the background.
One problem with these boundaries is their static character, which was caused, for instance, by relegating all contrary evidence about them into the footnotes of modern research papers.
It provided opportunities to develop a reputation for leadership for only a few students, relegating the remainder of the cadets to a supporting role at best.
Simply relegating the effects of religion to regional dummy variables fails to provide an accurate assessment of religion's importance.
But many of the students are relegating class music teaching to one of their lowest choices of career for reasons that are, in a sense, the 'wrong' ones.
Defending one’s national champions in the short term generally leads, in the longer term, to relegating them to the second division.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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