relegation

See also: relégation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin relēgātiō, relēgātiōnis.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

relegation (countable and uncountable, plural relegations)

1. The act of being relegated
   1. (sports) Moving from one division to a lower one, due to finishing the season with fewer points than others.

      Antonym: promotion

   2. demotion in a hierarchy, for example in business

      Antonym: promotion

   3. demotion of status etc.

Derived terms

• relegation zone

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
• Portuguese: despromoção f
• Russian: разжа́лование (ru) n (razžálovanije), низвожде́ние n (nizvoždénije)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

sports: moving from one division to a lower one

• Catalan: descens m
• French: relégation (fr) f
• Galician: descenso (gl) m
• German: Abstieg (de) f, Relegation (de) f
• Hungarian: kiesés (hu)
• Portuguese: despromoção f (Portugal), rebaixamento (pt) m (Brazil)
• Spanish: descenso (es) m

See also

• religation

Anagrams

• regelation