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Subsidiary   /səbsˈɪdiˌɛri/   Listen
Subsidiary

noun
(pl. subsidiaries)
1.
An assistant subject to the authority or control of another.  Synonyms: foot soldier, subordinate, underling.
2.
A company that is completely controlled by another company.  Synonym: subsidiary company.
adjective
1.
Functioning in a supporting capacity.  Synonyms: auxiliary, supplemental, supplementary.



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... Violetta's acting became steadily better, and freer. She had thrown aside everything subsidiary, everything superfluous, and found herself; a rare, a lofty delight for an artist! She had suddenly crossed the limit, which it is impossible to define, beyond which is the abiding place of beauty. The audience was thrilled and astonished. The plain girl ...
— On the Eve • Ivan Turgenev

... Interstate Commerce Commission—the one for the year ended June 30, 1896—contains financial reports from 1985 companies, there were only 782 "independent operating roads," the remainder of the companies being subsidiary organisations. This report shows that forty-four of these operating companies have an aggregate mileage that equals nearly six tenths of the total railway mileage of the United States. Indeed, ...
— Up To Date Business - Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) • Various

... manufacture of tobacco, and many of these during the last three decades have grown to large proportions. New establishments have been opened, some of which are among the largest in the world. The development of the American Tobacco Company and its affiliated and subsidiary organizations has greatly reduced the number of separate establishments. Many were bought by the combination; their brands were transferred to another factory; and the original establishments were closed as uneconomical. Many other small factories, feeling or fearing ...
— The New South - A Chronicle Of Social And Industrial Evolution • Holland Thompson

... are appointed (chap. xxv.) before the tabernacle itself (chap. xxvi.). This last is no eccentricity; the order in commanding is first the end, and then the means; but in obeying, the order is reversed. In like manner, it is not at all surprising if subsidiary implements, such as benches for slaughtering. or basins for washing, which have no importance for the cultus, properly so called, should be either passed over altogether, or merely brought in as an appendix. The case is not at all parallel with the omission of the most important utensil of the ...
— Prolegomena to the History of Israel • Julius Wellhausen

... part of all philosophy." Experimental science and the knowledge of languages come into use here. The fifth division is hortatory, or of morals as applied to duty, and embraces the art of rhetoric and other subsidiary arts. The sixth and final division treats of the relations of morals to the execution of justice.[28] Under one or other of these heads all special sciences and every ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, No. 38, December, 1860 • Various


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