Can and Relegate

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Can verb - To let go from office, service, or employment.

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Relegate and can are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Relegate" instead a verb "Can".

Relegate verb - To force to leave a country.

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Can and relegate are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Can" instead a verb "Relegate".

Nearby Words: relegation, relegating

This can send someone on the edge of Can't Catch Up straight into a ditch and relegate him to the side lines of a story, especially if it's fairly clear that the writers haven't used the character for a while because they don't know what to do with him.

Source: Love Makes You Dumb
Such battleriders can usually take out jumpships of equivalent tonnage but they don't have the option of jumping away if faced with a superior force, so the Imperial Navy tends to relegate them to defense.

Source: Standard Sci-Fi Fleet

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