relegating
present participle ofrelegate
| 单词 | relegating |
| 释义 | relegating present participle ofrelegate relegate verb[T] uk/ˈrel.ɪ.ɡeɪt/us/ˈrel.ə.ɡeɪt/to put someone or something into aloweror lessimportantrankorposition: Sheresignedwhen she was relegatedtoadeskjob. Thestorywas relegatedtothemiddlepagesof thepaper. UK If afootballteamis relegated, it ismoveddown to alowerdivision: If Southamptonloseagain they may be relegatedfromthe PremierLeaguetothe First Division. Compare promote(RAISE) Promoting staff
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Football/soccer Examplesofrelegatingrelegating In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. It became customary to present definitions before examples and build general results first,relegatingconcrete applications to witty exercises. From theCambridge English Corpus One result was that certain elitist and patriarchal practices found in rural society were replicated in church settings,relegatingwomen to subservient and passive roles. From theCambridge English Corpus Spatially peripheralizing the burial site,relegatingthe fallen revolutionaries to the urban edge, reduced its significance in the city's symbolic landscape. From theCambridge English Corpus The central part takes up much more space (around 2),relegatingthe other parts to the roles of introduction (around 40) and conclusion (around 40). From theCambridge English Corpus Seeing triadic interactions as the epicenter of development does not necessitaterelegatingcultural variability to the sidelines. From theCambridge English Corpus Commercial and political spotlights are shining brightly on xenotransplantation, at least temporarilyrelegatingsafer policy options to the shadows. From theCambridge English Corpus We disagree withrelegatingecological validity to this secondary role. From theCambridge English Corpus As the development intensifies, key activities are located in relation to a new major route,relegatingthe original roads to a secondary role. From theCambridge English Corpus This approach seems overly simplistic, however, andrelegatingmorphosyntax to the background in this question does not really help to solve the problem of word classes. From theCambridge English Corpus Denying, therefore, does not mean reducing the informative load and interest of the utterance orrelegatingit to the background. From theCambridge English Corpus One problem with these boundaries is their static character, which was caused, for instance, byrelegatingall contrary evidence about them into the footnotes of modern research papers. From theCambridge English Corpus It provided opportunities to develop a reputation for leadership for only a few students,relegatingthe remainder of the cadets to a supporting role at best. From theCambridge English Corpus Simplyrelegatingthe effects of religion to regional dummy variables fails to provide an accurate assessment of religion's importance. From theCambridge English Corpus But many of the students arerelegatingclass music teaching to one of their lowest choices of career for reasons that are, in a sense, the 'wrong' ones. From theCambridge English Corpus Defending one’s national champions in the short term generally leads, in the longer term, torelegatingthem to the second division. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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