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The correct answer is send away.

Relegate

A. deliver personally
B. send away
C. prepare in legal form
D. enact legislation

The correct answer is (B) To send away, to banish to some inferior or obscure place; to demote; to exile; to consign or dismiss to an inferior role, position, place, condition, etc.; to transfer, assign, or refer for information, decision, or execution.

Relegate comes from Latin relegare.

Examples of use:

  • They relegated her to a minor job in an obscure branch of the bureaucracy. He has been relegated to a post at the fringes of the diplomatic service;
  • He relegates those matters to a committee.


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