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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

... of confining itself to reading—that indispensable channel of moral nutriment— aimed at communicating knowledge as varied and advanced as time and funds would allow. He objected to the dissociation of school and home life—to that relegation of domestic interests and duties to the background, which large and highly-organized schools, and teachers much above the home level, must necessarily involve. And yet more strongly, and, as it may still seem to many minds, with convincing ...

— Wordsworth • F. W. H. Myers

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