| noun | authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions |
| verb | refer to another person for decision or judgment “She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues” |
| verb | assign to a lower position; reduce in rank “She was demoted because she always speaks up” |
| verb | expel, as if by official decree “he was banished from his own country” |
| verb | assign to a class or kind “How should algae be classified?” |
| delegate | verb | transfer power to someone |
| relegate | verb | refer to another person for decision or judgment |
| depute | verb | give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) |
| relegation | noun | authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions |
| relegating | noun | authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions |
| demotion | noun | act of lowering in rank or position |
| banishment | noun | rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone |
| classificatory | adjective | relating to or involving classification: |
| class | noun | a league ranked by quality |
| classification | noun | a group of people or things arranged by class or category |
| classifier | noun | a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs |