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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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... ever heard, who has entire charge of the female patients in an institution for the care and treatment of the insane. We have in the Harrisburg hospital, Dr. Jane Garver, as physician for the female insane, but she is subordinate to the male physician. She has a female physician to assist her. Dr. Bennett was appointed and took charge in July, 1880, with Dr. Anna Kingler as her assistant. Dr. Kingler resigned, and went to India as medical missionary; ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) • Various

... the Prince de Conti and Albergotti was kept up almost entirely by the community of their habits, and the secret parties of pleasure they concocted together. All the burden of marches, of orders of subsistence, fell upon a subordinate. Nothing could be more exact than the coup d'oeil of M. de Luxembourg— nobody could be more brilliant, more sagacious, more penetrating than he before the enemy or in battle, and this, too, with an audacity, an ease, and at the same time a coolness, which allowed him to see all ...
— The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete • Duc de Saint-Simon

... schools; it is not settled by critics; it is not to be settled by a group of realists or a group of veritists, or the latest group of impressionists. It is to be settled by the creative impulse of the man, first; and second, and always subordinate to ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O • Various

... English King often gave to individuals large tracts of land in the New World. In addition to ownership of the soil, was given in many cases the right to establish civil government. These proprietors had all the inferior royalties and subordinate powers of legislation. The proprietor could appoint or dismiss the governor, he could invest him with the power to convene a legislature, with power to veto its acts according to his wishes, and to perform all other powers of a governor. All laws made, those of Maryland excepted, were ...
— Government and Administration of the United States • Westel W. Willoughby and William F. Willoughby

... of the whole system on the Papacy itself was of the most serious character; all means of compulsion, whether temporal or spiritual, were used without scruple for the most questionable ends, and to these all the other objects of the Apostolic See were made subordinate. And when they were attained, at whatever cost of revolutions and proscriptions, a dynasty was founded which had no stronger interest than the ...
— The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy • Jacob Burckhardt


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