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Subordinate   /səbˈɔrdənˌeɪt/  /səbˈɔrdənət/   Listen
Subordinate

adjective
1.
Lower in rank or importance.  Synonym: low-level.
2.
Subject or submissive to authority or the control of another.
3.
(of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence.  Synonym: dependent.
noun
1.
An assistant subject to the authority or control of another.  Synonyms: foot soldier, subsidiary, underling.
2.
A word that is more specific than a given word.  Synonyms: hyponym, subordinate word.
verb
(past & past part. subordinated; pres. part. subordinating)
1.
Rank or order as less important or consider of less value.
2.
Make subordinate, dependent, or subservient.  Synonym: subdue.



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... popular form of national independence. Hence it follows that we find outlaw heroes popular very early in our history—heroes who stand in the mind of the populace for justice and true liberty against the oppressive tyranny of subordinate officials, and who are always taken into favour by the king, the ...
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... which I mentioned the other day, namely, that the President complained to Changarnier, who at that time commanded the army of Paris, that due weight seemed not to be given to his 6,000,000 votes, and that the Assembly appeared inclined to consider him a subordinate power, instead of the Chef d'Etat, to whom, not to the Assembly, the nation had confided its destinies. In short, that the President indicated an intention to make a coup d'etat, and that the troops were assembled by Changarnier for the purpose of resisting ...
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... make it descend by fits and starts, but in reality the approach is nearly constant, so that the orbits are in fact slightly spiral. What is true of the planets and satellites is also true of the stars with reference to Cosmos; though many even of these have subordinate motions in their great journey. Though the satellites of the moons revolve about the primaries in orbits inclined at all kinds of angles to the planes of the ecliptics, and even the moons vary in their paths about ...
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... and humorous,—with the plot subordinate to the character delineation of its quaint people and to the exquisite descriptions of picturesque spots and of lovely, ...
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