English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin relēgātiō, relēgātiōnis.
Pronunciation
Noun
relegation (countable and uncountable, plural relegations)
- The act of being relegated
- (sports) Moving from one division to a lower one, due to finishing the season with fewer points than others.
- Antonym: promotion
- demotion in a hierarchy, for example in business
- Antonym: promotion
- demotion of status etc.
Derived terms
Translations
act of being relegated
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: изпадане (bg) n (izpadane)
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: degradatie (nl)
- Finnish: alennus (fi)
- French: relégation (fr) f
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Abstieg (de) m, Absteigen (de) n
- Greek: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: lefokozás (hu), leminősítés (hu), száműzetés (hu)
- Italian: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: degradacja (pl) f, relegacja f
- Portuguese: despromoção f
- Russian: разжа́лование (ru) n (razžálovanije), низвожде́ние n (nizvoždénije)
- Spanish: please add this translation if you can
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sports: moving from one division to a lower one
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