Crossword clues for underling
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Underling \Un"der*ling\, n. [Under + -ling.]
An inferior person or agent; a subordinate; a low-ranking employee.
--Milton.-
Hence, A mean, sorry fellow.
--Milton.The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late Old English, "one who owes allegiance to a sovereign or ruler," from under + diminutive suffix -ling.
Wiktionary
n. A subordinate, or person of lesser rank or authority.
WordNet
n. an assistant subject to the authority or control of another [syn: subordinate, subsidiary, foot soldier]
Usage examples of "underling".
He had spent the whole morning alone, speaking to anonymous underlings via screen or annunciator, and requisitioning material from an even more impersonal computer.
He was tempted to order his driver to stop the jeep so he could show Manzo what happened to underlings who chronically complained, but he refrained for two reasons.
The underling can humbly suggest, but only an overling can harshly request.
I have tried to be a behavioral type manager, given to participatory management, consulting with my underlings, listening to their ideas and permitting them, at times, to talk me out of my original position, I find my army leadership lessons ones I had to unlearn.
The head groom, Davis by name, stood, with Pottinger and some underlings, at a little distance in attendance, and the men exchanged glances and nods.
I have to fill in some forms and present my claim to an underling, and then wait months for The Prez to see me?
The actual control of criminal underlings lay in the hands of Pointer Trame, a big-shot in his own right.
One was an underling of the British Ambassador, Waring knew, and the other an official of the Portuguese government.
He recognized that they were mere underlings, who had obeyed the orders of Alfredo Morales.
Second-in-Command, but by one of his underlings his ascosporic twin differing from him only in strength of will and force of personality.
The duke of Vo Astur saw a chance to muddy the waters here in Arendia when that happened, and he sent a group of his underlings to abduct the little boy.
As the new men ranked the cage wagons and tethered the uncaged animals in the backyard, Aleksandr Banat bustled about among them, issuing trivial and unnecessary orders, luxuriating in being now the crew chief of fully seventeen underlings.
On the contrary, Kwa, a pretender, could stir up fanatical underlings to a fever pitch.
Yet this second minion of Kwa had gained his objective, although doom had come to the majority of his evil underlings.
Lazarus, the prophet of Transcendent Harmony, had been put to death by Vorster underlings more than sixty years before.