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delegate (DEL i gayt") (verb)
1. To give control, responsibility, authority, etc. to someone: The manager will delegate authority to the best employees of this company so the project can succeed.
2. To give authority to another individual: The president will delegate the union leader as a delegate to the convention.
2. To give authority to another individual: The president will delegate the union leader as a delegate to the convention.
relegate (REL i gayt") (verb)
To assign an idea or a concept to a place of insignificance or to put something out of one’s mind: After the long argument, Brooke was determined to relegate the conflict out of her mind and to think of other things.
When the head librarian decided to delegate Krista to represent her library at the conference, she was concerned about the efforts of a minority to relegate the discussion of new books for the library to the bottom of the agenda.
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relegate (verb), relegates; relegated; relegating
1. To assign to a particular place, an unimportant position, or to an undesirable situation: George has been relegated to a lower paying job because he was unable to produce the profits that he told his supervisor that he would obtain.
2. Etymology: from Latin relegare, "to remove, to dismiss, to banish"; from re-, "back" + legare, "to send."
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2. Etymology: from Latin relegare, "to remove, to dismiss, to banish"; from re-, "back" + legare, "to send."