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After taking temporary charge last season he took us from looking down at the fringes of another relegation scrap, to within a kick of getting into Europe.
Robbie Fowler

Meaning of "relegation" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF RELEGATION

relegation  [ˌrɛlɪˈɡeɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RELEGATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Relegation is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES RELEGATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Promotion and relegation

In sports leagues, promotion and relegation is a process where teams are transferred between two divisions based on their performance for the completed season. The best-ranked teams in the lower division are promoted to the division above, and the worst-ranked teams in the higher division are relegated to the division below. In some leagues play-offs or qualifying rounds are also used to determine rankings. This process can continue through several levels, with teams being exchanged between levels 1 and 2, levels 2 and 3, levels 3 and 4, and so on. During the season, teams that are high enough in the table that they would qualify for promotion are sometimes said to be in the promotion zone, and those at the bottom are in the relegation zone. The number of teams exchanged between the divisions is normally identical. Exceptions occur when the higher division wishes to change the size of its membership, or has lost one or more of its clubs and wishes to restore its previous membership size, in which case fewer teams may be relegated from that division, or more accepted for promotion from the division below.

Definition of relegation in the English dictionary

The first definition of relegation in the dictionary is the act of moving sth or sb to a position of less authority, importance, etc; demotion. Other definition of relegation is the demotion of a football team, etc to a lower division. Relegation is also the referral of a matter to another or others, as for action or decision.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RELEGATION


aggregation
ˌæɡrɪˈɡeɪʃən
allegation
ˌælɪˈɡeɪʃən
centrifugation
ˌsɛntrɪfjʊˈɡeɪʃən
congregation
ˌkɒŋɡrɪˈɡeɪʃən
conjugation
ˌkɒndʒʊˈɡeɪʃən
delegation
ˌdɛlɪˈɡeɪʃən
disaggregation
ˌdɪsæɡrɪˈɡeɪʃən
elongation
ˌiːlɒŋˈɡeɪʃən
homologation
hɒˌmɒləˈɡeɪʃən
interrogation
ɪnˌtɛrəˈɡeɪʃən
investigation
ɪnˌvɛstɪˈɡeɪʃən
irrigation
ˌɪrɪˈɡeɪʃən
ligation
laɪˈɡeɪʃən
litigation
ˌlɪtɪˈɡeɪʃən
mitigation
ˌmɪtɪˈɡeɪʃən
navigation
ˌnævɪˈɡeɪʃən
obligation
ˌɒblɪˈɡeɪʃən
prolongation
ˌprəʊlɒŋˈɡeɪʃən
propagation
ˌprɒpəˈɡeɪʃən
segregation
ˌsɛɡrɪˈɡeɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RELEGATION

release date
release print
release valve
releasee
releasement
releaser
releasor
relegable
relegatable
relegate
relend
relent
relentless
relentlessly
relentlessness
relentment
Relenza
reletter
relevance
relevancy

WORDS THAT END LIKE RELEGATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
application
association
certification
citation
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
education
evaluation
excitation

Synonyms and antonyms of relegation in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «relegation» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RELEGATION

Find out the translation of relegation to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of relegation from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «relegation» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

保级
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

descenso
570 millions of speakers

English

relegation
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

निर्वासन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الهبوط
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вылета
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

rebaixamento
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নিম্নপদে সরান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

relégation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penyisihan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Abstieg
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

左遷
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

강등
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Degradasi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

xuống hạng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தள்ளப்பட்டப்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निर्वासिता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

küme düşme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

relegazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Spadek
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вильоту
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

retrogradare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υποβιβασμού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

relegasie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

nedflyttning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nedrykk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of relegation

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RELEGATION»

The term «relegation» is quite widely used and occupies the 33.111 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «RELEGATION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about relegation

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2 QUOTES WITH «RELEGATION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word relegation.
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Robbie Fowler
After taking temporary charge last season he took us from looking down at the fringes of another relegation scrap, to within a kick of getting into Europe.
2
Claudio Reyna
The situation was, the team I was on when I got injured went down to the lower leagues. In America, they don't have that relegation, so when the team went down to the lower region, every player has his value, and they went off and sold any player who had value.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RELEGATION»

Discover the use of relegation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to relegation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Encyclopedia of British Football
In contrast with cricket and the rughy codes, and North American sports, variations of the promotion and relegation system have operated throughout the history of British foothalL The promotion and relegation system was introduced hetween ...
Richard William Cox, Dave Russell, Wray Vamplew, 2002
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Journal. Appendix
New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives. at is, “I I 'relegation individuelIe, qui doit étre demandée et obtenue conformément a l'Article 9 du présent décret. Article 37. Les peines de la réclusion et de l'emprisonnement prononcées ...
New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, 1886
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Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of ...
relegation individualle, qui doit étre demandée, et obtenue conformément a l' Article 9 du présent décret. ' Article 37. Les peines de la réclusion et de l' emprisonnement prononcées centre des relégués pour crimes ou délits, par quelque ...
‎1886
4
The Business of Sports
Promotion and relegation do not rule out these forms of entry, but this system makes other forms of entry feasible. First, an entrepreneur can buy a minor league team, hire high-quality players and coaches, and earn promotion to a higher ...
Scott Rosner, Kenneth Shropshire, 2011
5
Journals and Printed Papers of the Federal Council of ...
Relegation differed from transportation in that every criminal relegated must have undergone a " principal sentence " in some penal establishment in the mother country. Relegation consisted in a state of internment outside France, after a ...
Federal Council of Australasia, 1886
6
Queensland Law Reporter
of the six months, he is liable to extradition. The French "Law con- R Lewis, Ex parte Charal. cerning Recidivistes" (Loi sur les Rdcidivistes) of 27th May, 1885, defines " relegation " as the perpetual internment, in the French Colonies Griffith ...
‎1902
7
Soccer and Philosophy: Beautiful Thoughts on the Beautiful Game
Financial inequality by itself might not have been enough to encourage negative soccer were it not for the very serious financial threat posed by relegation. Each season the bottom three teams in the EPL are demoted, or relegated, to a lower ...
Ted Richards, 2013
8
Bloody Confused!: A Clueless American Sportswriter Seeks ...
From time to time, a snide American sportswriter here or there has noted that a certain American team here or there inerits relegation—cheap laugh, if that—but there's never been any real push to implement relegation. In fact, as john Kerr, the ...
Chuck Culpepper, 2008
9
The Oxford Handbook of Sports Economics Volume 1: The ...
Open leagues, commonly found in Europe, use the process of promotion and relegation to determine which teams will constitute the league in the following season. Promotion-and-relegation leagues consist of interrelated, hierarchically ...
Leo H. Kahane, Stephen Shmanske, 2012
10
Programming Languages and Systems: 6th Asian Symposium, ...
The first four columns of Table 1 present millisecond timings for execution with region memory (R1 - no relegation, no re- setting; R2 - relegation, no resetting; R3 - relegation and resetting) and execution with the SSCLI GC (GC - timings; ...
G. Ramalingam, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RELEGATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term relegation is used in the context of the following news items.
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Hamburg escape Bundesliga relegation in extra time after dramatic …
Hamburg clung on to their Bundesliga status by the skin of their teeth after a stoppage-time equaliser and extra-time winner earned a 2-1 triumph away at ... «Daily Mail, Jun 15»
2
QPR have learned lesson from previous relegation, says Tony …
The Queens Park Rangers chairman Tony Fernandes knows the club must again cope with relegation from the Premier League. Photograph: Stephen Pond/PA. «The Guardian, May 15»
3
QPR suffer Premier League relegation but their real issues are just …
Teams that are relegated from the Premier League generally fall into a few categories. There are those who were over-achieving by simply getting to the top ... «ESPN FC, May 15»
4
Premier League Relegation Betting: Beleaguered Black Cats set to …
Queens Park Rangers, too, seem certain to plunge into the second tier of English football as their relegation worries deepened after a goalless draw against ... «Goal.com, Apr 15»
5
Garber does not foresee promotion/relegation in near future
While he would not say never, Don Garber reiterated Friday that promotion and relegation in MLS is not feasible for the league. Don Garber has long said ... «Goal.com, Apr 15»
6
Burnley's Sean Dyche holds no grudge against Leicester in …
Burnley's Sean Dyche holds no grudge against Leicester in relegation battle. • Leicester manager Nigel Pearson critical of Clarets at last meeting «The Guardian, Apr 15»
7
Premier League relegation predicted: Villa down with QPR and …
Tuesday night provided only inconclusive evidence for the relegation battle. Tim Sherwood's gilet lasted just 10 minutes when Christian Benteke scored Aston ... «ESPN FC, Apr 15»
8
Swansea defeat a 'massive wake-up call' for relegation-threatened …
“This has got to be a massive wake-up call because it's OK when you are a few places above the relegation zone, but when you look at the points difference it's ... «mirror.co.uk, Apr 15»
9
Sunderland appoint Dick Advocaat and offer him nearly £1m to save …
The 67-year-old Dutchman has been announced by the relegation-threatened club today following the sacking of Gus Poyet yesterday. He can expect to earn ... «Daily Star, Mar 15»
10
Premiership rugby clubs begin fight to suspend relegation
Mark McCafferty, chief executive of Premiership Rugby, is keen to expand the league and suspend relegation. Photograph: David Rogers/Getty Images. «The Guardian, Mar 15»

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