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Definition of Relegating

1. Noun. Authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions.

Definition of Relegating

1. Verb. (present participle of relegate) ¹

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Definition of Relegating

1. relegate [v] - See also: relegate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Relegating

Literary usage of Relegating

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Law of Patents for Useful Inventions by William Callyhan Robinson (1890)
"Essence of any Concrete Invention Ascertained by relegating it to its Proper Group. The concrete inventions falling within these fundamental groups do not ..."

2. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1881)
"... or, perhaps it would be more proper to say, recognizing, the actuality of the pagan mythology by relegating its gods to the inferior class of daemons. ..."

3. The Parliamentary Debates: Official Report by Northern Ireland Parliament. House of Commons (1884)
"In reference to relegating the question of the East and West Coast route to a Committee of North Island men, I consider it no more a joke than the one ..."

4. Parliamentary Debates by Sierra Leone House of Representatives, Legislature (1876)
"... but for us to pass a resolution relegating, to a body which we do not know will exist, the duty of determining during the recces what the expenditure ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1901)
"Thus, while the editors of the Centralblatt were willing to confine the reviews to the journal itself, relegating the original articles to the Beihefte, ..."

6. English Poor Law Policy by Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1910)
"... for relegating any aged persona to the Poor Law Authority. Of the non-ablebodied paupers—and it is for the non-ablebodied that the Scottish Poor Law ..."

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