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subordinate
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "having an inferior rank," from Medieval Latin subordinatus "placed in a lower order, made subject," past participle of subordinare "place in a lower order," from Latin sub "under" (see sub- ) + ordinare "arrange, set in order" (see ordain ). ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 Placed in a lower class, rank, or position. 2 submissive or inferior to, or controlled by, authority. 3 (context grammar of a clause not comparable English) dependent on and either modifying or complementing the main clause n. (senseid en one who is subordinate)(context ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES subordinate clause COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN class ▪ The other was the sense of injustice experienced by the subordinate classes at seeing the scheme dropped. ▪ Large sections of the population, the subordinate ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. rank or order as less important or consider of less value; "Art is sometimes subordinated to Science in these schools" make subordinate, dependent, or subservient; "Our wishes have to be subordinated to that of our ruler" [syn: subdue ]
Usage examples of subordinate.
Economic development within the United States and stabilization and reform in Europe and Japan were all guaranteed by the United States insofar as it accumulated imperialist superprofits through its relationship to the subordinate countries.
She accustomed her husband to consider Julian as a youth of a mild, unambitious disposition, whose allegiance and gratitude might be secured by the gift of the purple, and who was qualified to fill with honor a subordinate station, without aspiring to dispute the commands, or to shade the glories, of his sovereign and benefactor.
This typical Tusayan feature is only slightly approximated in some subordinate rows within the court.
This form of faith, asserting the efflux of all subordinate existence out of one Supreme Being, seems sometimes to rest on an intuitive idea.
The guard would inform Banneret Dusburg that his minion had returned, and Dusburg would either send him out again or advise Banneret Catavolinos that he could have his subordinate back.
Another champion, Bles Four-Fang, invaded the headquarters of the garrison, caught up the silver commander named Seaborg, and appeared to devour him, armor and all, while the dying officer calmly broadcast final telepathic orders to his subordinates directing the troops now making a last stand at the gate opening into the inner city.
Kirk cut him off with the same impatient brusqueness that would strike fear into the hearts of his subordinates when he was twenty years more refined.
The subsequent publication of the official despatches has served little purpose, save to show that there was a want of harmony between Buller and Warren, and that the former lost all confidence in his subordinate during the course of the operations.
To prevent the enemy from detecting a rhythm in the off-on radar monitoring, Manesh had ordered his subordinate to change the time lapse between sweeps and also change the duration of the sweeps.
Of course the President cannot be held responsible for the misfeasances of subordinates, unless adopted or at least tolerated by him.
Forgetting about the papers he was examining, Morena took the Bodyguard away from his subordinates, examined it with pleasure, and then stuck it inside his waistband.
Laughing, Morena slugged Ransom half a dozen times in the face and stomach while his grinning subordinates watched.
God--an illimitable, omnipotent, paternal spirit, who rewarded the good and punished the wicked--in contradistinction from the multifarious, subordinate, animal and bestial demi-gods of the other nations of the earth.
Dux to the Comes, I do not think we can, with the Notitia before us, assert that the Provincial Duces were regularly subordinated to the Diocesan Comes, as the Provincial Consulares were to the Diocesan Vicarius.
Namely, amid the alternative time-systems which nature offers there will be one with a duration giving the best average of cogredience for all the subordinate parts of the percipient event.