Delegation vs. Relegation

Delegation and Relegation Definitions
Delegation
The act of delegating.
Relegation
To consign to an inferior or obscure place, rank, category, or condition
An artist's work that is now relegated to storerooms.
A group that has been relegated to the status of second-class citizens.
Delegation
The condition of being delegated.
Relegation
To refer or assign (a matter or task, for example) for decision or action
Relegate the teaching of writing to graduate students.
Relegate the matter to a committee.
Delegation
A person or group of persons officially elected or appointed to represent another or others.
Relegation
The act of being relegated
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Delegation
An act of delegating.
Relegation
(sports) Moving from one division to a lower one, due to poor results
Delegation
A group of delegates used to discuss issues with an opponent.
Relegation
The act of relegating, or the state of being relegated; removal; banishment; exile.
Delegation
(computing) A method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls.
Relegation
Authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions
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Delegation
(legal)Law of obligations The act whereby or constellation in which the performance of an obligation (owed to an obligee, presuming its validity; irrespective of the obligation as the target of the delegation, rarely called delegatary) is assigned by its debtor (delegator, obligor) to and towards another party (delegatee, delegate)
Relegation
The act of assigning (someone or something) to a particular class or category
Delegation
The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates.
Relegation
Mild banishment; consignment to an inferior position;
He has been relegated to a post in Siberia
Delegation
One or more persons appointed or chosen, and commissioned to represent others, as in a convention, in Congress, etc.; the collective body of delegates; as, the delegation from Massachusetts; a deputation.
Delegation
A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him.
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Delegation
A group of representatives or delegates
Delegation
Authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions