The word "relegate" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to sending someone or something to an inferior place or position. For example: "The unpopular candidate was relegated to last place in the polls."
She preferred to relegate them to a back room or outhouse, a kind of secret space with a single chair where she could go and sit with the pictures all around her on her own.
SAP is hoping that its partnership with Commerce One will relegate its bitter rival Oracle to a less influential position within Covisint.With a proper stock-option plan for top staff now approved, a new marketing executive hired from Sony to sell mySAP.com and a more market-friendly management style, Mr Kagermann is betting that recovery in America will soon become evident.
Another cause for worry in the party is that it could relegate Scottish MPs (most of whom are Labour) to second-class status within the House of Commons.For the SNP, by contrast, the Smith proposals do not go far enough.
The Palestinians also fear that such an acknowledgment might relegate their Arab-Israeli brethren in Israel as second-class citizens.
But in the chancelleries of Central Europe such notions are treated with some suspicion for fear they might relegate their countries to second-class membership.Money mattersMuch of the debate on how decisions are to be made comes down to money, particularly in the tricky areas of agricultural and regional policies.
The same incentives apply lower down the scale, because all European leagues relegate their bottom teams to a lower division.
For the same reason, let the (intergovernmental) Council of Ministers be "the strategic policy-setter", but "don't tilt the institutional balance and relegate the commission".Wider EU or not, Finland already sees the foreigners at it gates.
And on July 13th Scotland's football clubs voted to relegate them to the country's bottom division, ensuring that they cannot return to the SPL until the 2015-16 season.Like most clubs today that are not subsidised by a profligate owner, Rangers have consistently spent more on payroll than they could afford in order to keep pace with Celtic.
That, not the easily overturned ruling of an obscure federal agency, and not, unfortunately, public opposition, is what will eventually relegate the Redskins name to the trash heap, where it belongs.
At a practical level, some could not, or would not, sew, as this would relegate their art to a craft.Having, most of them, moved into the real world and accepting capitalism, they found that capitalism was not always ready to accept them.
But the same politicians are withering about the idea that David Cameron, the British prime minister, might relegate Britain to the fringes of Europe in order to protect the country's financial-services industry.One can see a similar attitude in the debate about Germany's role in creating the current euro-mess.
