SUBORDINATE
\sʌbˈɔːdɪnət], \sʌbˈɔːdɪnət], \s_ʌ_b_ˈɔː_d_ɪ_n_ə_t]\
Definitions of SUBORDINATE
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
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(grammar) of a clause; unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence; "a subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or adjective or adverb within a sentence"
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a word that is more specific than a given word
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inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary"
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lower in rank or importance
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subject or submissive to authority or the control of another; "a subordinate kingdom"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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a word that is more specific than a given word
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inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary"
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lower in rank or importance
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subject or submissive to authority or the control of another; "a subordinate kingdom"
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an assistant subject to the authority or control of another
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of a clause; unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence; "a subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or adjective or adverb within a sentence"
By Princeton University
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Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.
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Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like.
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One who stands in order or rank below another; -- distinguished from a principal.
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To place in a lower order or class; to make or consider as of less value or importance; as, to subordinate one creature to another.
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To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to subordinate the passions to reason.
By Oddity Software
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Lower in rank, value, power, or importance; subject to another; in grammar, denoting the less important clause of a complex sentence, or the conjunction which introduces it.
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One who is below another in rank, etc.
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To place in a lower order; to make subject or obedient to.
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Subordinately.
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Subordinateness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Subordinately.
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Lower in order, rank, nature, power, etc.: descending in a regular series.
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One in a lower order or rank: an inferior.
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To place in a lower order: to consider of less value: to make subject.
By Daniel Lyons
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Subordinately.
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Subordination.
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To make subordinate.
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Belonging to an inferior order or rank; secondary; subject; subservient.
By James Champlin Fernald
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An inferior.
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In a lower order or rank; inferior.
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Subordination.
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To place in a lower order; make inferior or subject.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Inferior in order, dignity, power or importance; descending in a regular series.
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One who stands in order or rank below another.
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To place in an order or rank below something else; to make or consider as of less value or importance; to make subject.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Inferior in nature, rank, or importance; descending in a regular series.
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One who stands in rank or dignity below another; an inferior person.
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To place in order or rank below another; to consider of less value or importance; to make of less value.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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