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/səˈbɔɹdəˌneɪt, səˈbɔɹdənət/
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ADJECTIVE
- lower in rank or importance
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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 -
subject or submissive to authority or the control of another
a subordinate kingdom
VERB
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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
NOUN
- a word that is more specific than a given word
- an assistant subject to the authority or control of another
How To Use subordinate In A Sentence
- But the subordinates accentuated the differences between the roles of individual contributor and manager that best fitted their interests.
- All the issues of survival that we have discussed above must be subordinated to this ultimate imperative.
- Encourage the subordinate gently to seek solutions and propose action.
- In industry, a worker who is grossly insubordinate is threatened with discharge.
- The tuffs are associated with subordinate sandstones and siltstones and minor lava.
- The mayor, Dr. Arnold, was completely "subjugated," and, after consulting with him, I authorized him to assemble his City Council to take charge generally of the interests of the people; but warned all who remained that they must be strictly subordinate to the military law, and to the interests of the General Government. Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals
- Government ministers, local authorities and other public bodies have been given the power by statute to make subordinate legislation.
- Troopergate was about a dangerous renegade brother-in-law; Walt Monegan was "insubordinate;" Charlie Gibson's interview was full of "gotcha" questions; Katie Couric was just mean and condescending; the shouts of "kill him" and "terrorist" at her rallies were the fault of Bill Ayers; Wardrobegate was the fault of the McCain Campaign; losing the election wasn't her fault, it was George W. Bush and the economy. Shannyn Moore: Gobble Gobblegate
- Ecclesiastical discipline, penes Episcopos, subordinate as the other. Anatomy of Melancholy
- The earlier one is a form of adoptionism, in which Jesus was born human of natural parents, but later elevated by God to a subordinate divine status. Philocrites: Isaac Newton's anti-Trinitarianism in the news.