relegate

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To consign to an inferior or obscure place, rank, category, or condition.
• transitive verb To refer or assign (a matter or task, for example) for decision or action.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To send away or out of the way; consign, as to some obscure or remote destination; banish; dismiss.
• In Roman law, to send into exile; cause to remove a certain distance from Rome for a certain period.
• In law, to remit or put off to an inferior remedy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To remove, usually to an inferior position; to consign; to transfer; specifically, to send into exile; to banish.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb Exile, banish, remove, or send away.
• verb transitive Consign or assign.
• verb transitive Refer or submit.
• adjective past participial Relegated; exiled.
• noun Roman history, obsolete A person who has been banished from proximity to Rome for a set time, but without losing his civil rights.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb expel, as if by official decree
• verb assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
• verb refer to another person for decision or judgment
• verb assign to a class or kind