noun
definition
The act of being relegated
Examples of relegation in a Sentence
Only a miracle would have stopped the club falling through the relegation trapdoor.
Despite the hunting ban, they're firmly looking at a relegation dogfight.
A series of eleven games without a win saw them plummet toward the relegation zone.
In Siberia and northern Europe species of an African type survived till a comparatively late epoch, so that the present relegation of the group to tropical Asia and Africa may be regarded as a modern feature in distribution.
The Amateurs now have to dig deep for their final fixture in order to stave off relegation.
Following last season's unfortunate relegation to Division 2, the Academicals are planning a triumphant comeback.
City still need points to ensure safety from relegation, while a few good wins would catapult Ciren back into promotion play-off contention.
A Birmingham newspaperâs poll also revealed more than 50 per cent expect Villa to be fighting relegation again.
Relying on the support of the Monothelite party, he made some pretensions to the throne on the outbreak of the first great rebellion against Justinian; these led to his relegation to Cephalonia by Tiberius Absimarus, and subsequently to his banishment, by order of Justinian, to Cherson.
While todays game will be a pressure cooker for former boss Peter Taylor Leicester have a great chance to ease their relegation fears.
Written off as relegation fodder after three successive defeats, victory over Nottingham Forest was Pool's only hope.
Swansea's first league victory of the year has brought a glimmer of hope that they may avoid relegation.
Was Danny Crow really not worth a chance on the back of relegation, especially given his relative pittance of a salary?
Nigel Worthington was delighted with the result against relegation rivals West Brom at Carrow Road on saturday.
Good professionals like Wotton, Norris and Nalis should ensure that they stay afloat, but they could get involved in the relegation scrap.
Relegation - The Reds have only been relegated from the top flight on three occasions.
But the further progress of Scholastic thought consisted in a withdrawal of doctrine after doctrine from the possibility of rational proof and their relegation to the sphere of faith.
The lighter punish ments inflicted by masters were commonly personal chastisement or banishment from the town house to rural labour; the severer were employment in the mill (pistrinum) or relegation to the mines or quarries.
The best-known lettres de cachet, however, were those which may be called penal, by which the king sentenced a subject without trial and without an opportunity of defence to imprisonment in a state prison or an ordinary gaol, confinement in a convent or a hospital, transportation to the colonies, or relegation to a given place within the realm.
In 355 Liberius was one of the few who, along with Eusebius of Vercelli, Dionysius of Milan and Lucifer of Cagliari, refused to sign the condemnation of Athanasius, which had anew been imposed at Milan by imperial command upon all the Western bishops; the consequence was his relegation to Beroea in Thrace, Felix II.