leg-, lex
(Latin: pertaining to the law, legal)
From Latin legalis and lex, legis, law; lex is singular while leges is plural.
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."
![To remove to a worse position.](http://www.wordinfo.info/words/images/relegate-1.jpg)
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![To send to a less desirable situation.](http://www.wordinfo.info/words/images/relegate-2.jpg)
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![To remove to an undesirable area.](http://www.wordinfo.info/words/images/relegate-3.jpg)
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2. Etymology: from Latin relegare, "to remove, to dismiss, to banish"; from re-, "back" + legare, "to send."
![To remove to a worse position.](http://www.wordinfo.info/words/images/relegate-1.jpg)
![To send to a less desirable situation.](http://www.wordinfo.info/words/images/relegate-2.jpg)
![To remove to an undesirable area.](http://www.wordinfo.info/words/images/relegate-3.jpg)
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