Secondary importance

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Subsidiarity is a principle of social organization that originated in the Roman Catholic Church. In its most basic formulation, it holds that social and political issues should be dealt with at the most immediate (or local) level that is consistent with ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Sunday trading,for example, is something that one would think was a national matter with the subsidiarity rule applying. ▪ That idea is wholly compatible with the argument about subsidiarity . ▪ That is the institution which ...

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n. The principle that government power ought to reside at the lowest feasible level (i.e. at the local or regional level, instead of the national or supranational level, unless the latter presents clear advantages)

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1936, from German Subsidiarität , paraphrasing the Latin of Pius XI in his Quadragesimo Anno of 1931; see subsidiary + -ity .

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n. secondary importance [syn: subordinateness ]