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/səbˈɔrdənˌeɪt/ /səbˈɔrdənət/ Listen

adjective

Subordinate adj.

Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position. "The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished."

Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like. "It was subordinate, not enslaved, to the understanding."

noun

Subordinate n. One who stands in order or rank below another; distinguished from a principal.

verb

Subordinate v. t. (past & past part. subordinated; pres. part. subordinating)

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.

To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to subordinate the passions to reason.

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Etymology of 'Subordinate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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 ...

— Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Vol. 2 • Alexis de Tocqueville

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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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