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Subordinate   /səbˈɔrdənˌeɪt/  /səbˈɔrdənət/   Listen
Subordinate

adjective
1.
Lower in rank or importance.  Synonym: low-level.
2.
Subject or submissive to authority or the control of another.
3.
(of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence.  Synonym: dependent.
noun
1.
An assistant subject to the authority or control of another.  Synonyms: foot soldier, subsidiary, underling.
2.
A word that is more specific than a given word.  Synonyms: hyponym, subordinate word.
verb
(past & past part. subordinated; pres. part. subordinating)
1.
Rank or order as less important or consider of less value.
2.
Make subordinate, dependent, or subservient.  Synonym: subdue.



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... Ten Vazirs (No. 174), derived, however, not from the Arabic, but from the Persian Bakhtyar Nameh. Three of the subordinate tales in the Arabic version are wanting in Gauttier's, and another is transferred to his vol. vii., but he includes one, the King and Queen of Abyssinia (No. 252), which appears to be wanting in the Arabic. The remainder of the volume contains tales from Scott's version, the ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton

... That is done of a purpose. In talking of the corps, from the topsiders down—generals, colonels, majors, captains lieutenants, and enlisted men—one fact stuck out: They all played up the corps. All individuals—officers and men—were made subordinate to the corps. So here, taking the tip, no names are named. A soldier speaks of his regiment, a bluejacket of his ship. The Marine Corps is made up of companies, regiments, battalions, divisions; but it is the corps of which ...
— The U-boat hunters • James B. Connolly

... European Continent was in a state of political dislocation; and we may safely conclude that when the great power was shattered that had so long held the government of the world, the more distant and subordinate branch of its empire would resolve itself into some of the separate elements of authority and of imperfect obedience by which a clan is distinguished from ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 4 • Various

... was a subordinate one, whose duty it was to keep a look out at the prow, to manage and direct the sails and rowers, and to assist the principal pilot by his advice: the directions of the subordinate pilot were conveyed to the rowers by another officer, who seems to have answered to the boatswain of our men ...
— Robert Kerr's General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 18 • William Stevenson

... not my profession," replied the cavalier, haughtily. "I am a physiognomist. Allow me to call in my subordinate." ...
— Joseph II. and His Court • L. Muhlbach


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