Subordinate

Definition: Subordinate

Subordinate

Adjective

1. Lower in rank or importance.

2. Subject or submissive to authority or the control of another; "a subordinate kingdom".

3. (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".

4. Inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary".

Noun

1. Someone subject to the authority or control of another.

2. A word that is more specific than a given word.

Verb

1. Rank as less important.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "subordinate" was first used: sometime around 1449. (references)

Computing

Food & Agriculture

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Synonyms: Subordinate

Inferiority

Adjective: inferior, smaller; small; minor, less, lesser, deficient, minus, lower, subordinate, secondary; secondrate; (imperfect); sub, subaltern; thrown into the shade; weighed in the balance and found wanting; not fit to hold a candle to, can't hold a candle to.

Subjection

Adjective: subject, dependent, subordinate; feudal, feudatory; in subjection to, under control; in leading strings, in harness; subjected, enslaved; Verb: constrained; downtrodden; overborne, overwhelmed; under the lash, on the hip, led by the nose, henpecked; the puppet of, the sport of, the plaything of; under one's orders, under one's command, under one's thumb; a slave to; at the mercy of; in the power of, in the hands of, in the clutches of; at the feet of; at one's beck and call; (obedient); liable; parasitical; stipendiary.

Unimportance

Subordinate; (inferior); mediocre; (average); passable, fair, respectable, tolerable, commonplace; uneventful, mere, common; ordinary; (habitual); inconsiderable, so-so, insignificant, inappreciable.

Crosswords: Subordinate

What do you call Santa's helpers? Subordinate Clauses. (references; author: unknown)

The Overfamiliar Subordinate (1965)

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Books

• Dominant Powers and Subordinate States: The United States in Latin America and the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe (reference)

• PURITAN BOOKSHELF CD (Volume Two) Church of Scotland (Protesters, Subordinate Documents and Other Documents), Psalms in Meter, Civil Government, Covenanters, Covenants, Dutch Church (Synod of Dort) (reference)

• Subordinate Sex a History of Attitudes Toward Wome (reference)

• Subordinate Subjects: Gender, the Political Nation, and Literary Form in England, 1588-1688 (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World) (reference)

• The Quest for Security in the Caribbean: Problems and Promises in Subordinate States (reference)

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Periodicals

• Index Of Subordinate Legislation (reference)

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This is acknowledged in subordinate magistrates. (Second Treatise of Government)

In ancient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs; in almost all of these classes, again, subordinate gradations. (reference)

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So much so that as a people they subordinate themselves willingly, and take a Lord for a head.

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Business

Most women play a subordinate role in this family centered society because of early marriages and traditional attitudes about women's activities. (references)

Civil Liberties

Moldova

It is subordinate to the Bucharest Patriarchate of the Romanian Orthodox Church. (references)

Congo

The Government considered the right to assemble to be subordinate to the maintenance of "public order." The Government requires all organizers to apply for permits, which are granted or rejected at the Government's discretion. (references)

Gabon

In June the National Assembly and Senate passed a new Communications Code proposed by the National Communications Council (CNC), a government agency subordinate to the Communications Ministry, that could further restrict press freedom by expanding the scope of criminal libel laws in the name of protecting "dignity of the person." It stipulates that penalties for libel and other offenses include a 1 to 3-month publishing suspension for a first offense and a 3 to 6-month suspension for repeat offenses. (references)

Discrimination

Chad

In practice cultural traditions maintain women in a status subordinate to men, and the Government favors its ethnic supporters and allies. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

The Constitution and the law prohibit discrimination based on race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, or religion; however, in practice women occupy a subordinate role in society. (references)

Economic History

Singapore

Judicial--High Court, Court of Appeal, subordinate courts. (references)

Human Rights

Singapore

The President also appoints subordinate court judges on the recommendation of the Chief Justice. (references)

Singapore

The subordinate courts handle the great majority of civil and criminal cases in the first instance. (references)

El Salvador

In October a military tribunal sentenced the two men to 4 years in prison for mistreating a subordinate. (references)

Political Economy

Botswana

The directorates are subordinate to the Secretariat. (references)

Argentina

Provincial police are subordinate to the respective governor. (references)

Estonia

Corrections personnel are subordinate to the Ministry of Justice. (references)

Political Rights

Iraq

The RCC dominates the National Assembly, which is completely subordinate to it and the executive branch. (references)

Saudi Arabia

The King appoints all other ministers, who in turn appoint subordinate officials with cabinet concurrence. (references)

Zimbabwe

The legislature, which traditionally has been subordinate to the executive branch, has a viable opposition that called on the Government to be accountable and transparent. (references)

Women

Swaziland

Women occupy a subordinate role in society. (references)

Korea

The country's conservative traditions have left women subordinate to men socially and economically. (references)

Albania

Under the kanun, a woman's duty is to serve her husband, and to be subordinate to him in all matters. (references)

Worker Rights

Niger

Persons are born into a traditionally subordinate caste and are expected to work without pay for those above them in the traditional social structure. (references)

Poland

Key state sector employers (largely in heavy industry and the budget sector) remained unable to negotiate independently with organized labor without the extensive involvement of central government ministries to which they are subordinate, although the Government repeatedly stated that its intention was not to be drawn into labor disputes. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "subordinate": be subordinate ♦ be subordinate to ♦ major subordinate commander ♦ major subordinate commanders ♦ principal subordinate commander ♦ subordinate area commander ♦ subordinate clause ♦ subordinate concept ♦ subordinate conjunction ♦ subordinate lender ♦ subordinate oneself ♦ subordinate part ♦ subordinate sense ♦ subordinate word ♦ visually subordinate. Additional references.

Beginning with "subordinate": subordinate-boss, subordinate-ruler.

Ending with "subordinate": boss-subordinate, manager-subordinate, non-subordinate.

Albanian

vartës (ancillary, dependant, dependent, menial, subaltern, subsidiary, underling), nënshtroj (enslave, master, reduce, subdue, subject, subjugate, submit, vanquish), nënrenditës, i nënshtruar (deferred, passive, reduced, servile, slavish, subject, submissive, under, yielding). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مرؤوس (inferior, subject, underlying), ‏وضعه في مرتبة أدنى, ‏تابع (adherent, attached, citizen, dependent, disciple, follow, follow up, follower, following, forward, function, get on, go ahead, keep an eye on, page, post, press, pursue, put up with, redirect, satellite, send on, sub, subject, subsequent, subservient, subsidiary, tributary, under one's thumb, underlying, urge, vassal), ‏خضع (bend, bow, compel, conquer, hew, knuckle under, kowtow, reclaim, reduce, steady, subdue, subject, subjugate, submit, succumb, throw in one's hand, undergo, wash, yield), ‏خاضع (dependent, liable, subject, submissive, subsidiary, tributary), ‏المرؤوس (inferior, subject), ‏التابع (client, dependent, man, serf, subject, vassal). (various references)

Bulgarian 

второстепенен (accessary, accessory, accidental, by, bye, collateral, inessential, lesser, minor, off, second, secondary, side, tributary, two bit), вторичен (indirect, second, secondary), зависим (adjective, contingent, dependant, dependent, subject, tributary), правя второстепенен, правя зависим (suspend), подчинявам (bend, overmaster, overpower, prostrate, subdue, subject, tame, tie down, vanquish), подчинен (ancillary, dependant, dependent, inferior, sidekick, sub, sub-, subaltern, subject, subservient, tributary, under, underling, vassal), подвластен (belonging to smb.'s realm, subservient, vassal). (various references)

Chinese 

附屬 , 部下 (troops under one's command), 屬下 , 下级, 下屬 (underling). (various references)

Czech

vedlejší (accessory, accidental, adjoining, ancillary, by, collateral, extraneous, immaterial, incidental, minor, next, next door, off, secondary, subsidiary, supporting, ulterior), podřízený (inferior, junior, low, underling), podřadný (complex, crummy, inferior), podřídit. (various references)

Danish

undertrykt (overtopped, suppressed), underordnet. (various references)

Dutch

ondergeschikte, achterstellen (neglect). (various references)

Esperanto

subulo, malpreferi. (various references)

Farsi 

فرمانبردار (Obedient), فرعی (Accessory, Adjunct, Ancillary, By, Bye, Derivative, Extraneous, Inferior, Petty, Secondary, Sideway, Subsidiary, Tributary), پاءین تر (Beneath, Lower), مادون (Below, Sub, Subject), مرءوس , وابسته (Adjective, Affiliate, Akin, Attache, Attendant, Correlate, Dependent, Germane, Relative, Relevant), تابع قراردادن , زیردست یامطیع کردن . (various references)

Finnish

käskynalainen, alistaa (refer, subject, submit to somebody's decision), alempi (inferior, lower, under). (various references)

French

subordonné, subalterne (subaltern, subservient). (various references)

Frisian

efterútstelle (neglect). (various references)

German

unterordnen (to subordinate), untergeordnet (dependant, dependent, inferior, junior, low, menial, petty, secondarily, secondary, subaltern, subordinated, subsidiary), Untergebene (underling). (various references)

Greek 

υφιστάμενος (junior, subaltern, underling). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשעב�" (enslave, mortgage, subjugate), ל�"כפיף, ל�"כ� יע (humble, overpower, overwhelm, quell, subdue, subject, subjugate), פקו�" (command, commandership, counted, numbered), כפיף (flexible, limber, lithe, malleable, pliable, pliant, supple), כפוף (bent, bowed, bowing, crooked, flection, flexion, hunched up, inclined, reclinate, subject, subordination, subservient), טפלי (subsidiary), � חות (coarse, degenerate, disadvantaged, inferior, low, second rate, tinpot). (various references)

Hungarian

alantas (base, earthbound, inferior, low, menial, plebeian, pokey, small minded, sub, underling), alárendelt (ancillary, attached, dependant, dependent, inferior, junior, minor, sub, subaltern, subordinated, subservient, tributary, underling), alárendel (assign, attach, to subordinate). (various references)

Indonesian

rendahan (of lower rank), bawahan. (various references)

Italian

subordinato (dependant, dependent, inferior, secondary, subaltern, subject, under). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

附属 (affiliated, annexed, associated, attached, auxiliary, belonging, dependent, incidental), 目下 (at present, inferior, junior, now), 二次 (secondary), 二の次 (secondary), 手下 (underling), �"的 (secondary), �"たる (accessory, incidental, junior, secondary), 公 (companion, daimyo, duke, formal, governmental, lord, official, open, prince, public), 付属 (affiliated, annexed, associated, attached, auxiliary, belonging, dependent, incidental), 下部 (lower part, manservant, servant, substructure), 下位 (low rank, lower order), 下回り (menial service, subordinate part, utility man). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

したまわり (menial service, subordinate part, utility man), きみ (companion, daimyo, duke, egg yolk, feeling, lord, prince, public, sensation, you), ふぞく (affiliated, annexed, associated, attached, auxiliary, belonging, dependent, incidental), にのつぎ (secondary), にじ (name, rainbow, secondary, two characters), かぶ (lower part, share, singing and dancing, stock, stump, substructure, turnip), かい (assembly, association, avail, being in between, buyer, buying, club, concerning oneself with, counter for occurrences, effect, -floor, large, low rank, lower order, mediation, meeting, mystery, oar, paddle, party, purchase, result, scull, shell, shellfish, stories, the feelings of the people, together, use, wonder, worth), �"う (10^38, 1st in rank, 7th in rank, be bent, benefit, body cavity, boorish, box, clause, companion, compare with, daimyo, duke, effect, efficacy, efficiency, entertainment, female phoenix bird, filial piety, first sign of the Chinese calendar, grade A, happiness, head, height, hill, hundred sextillion, hundred undecillion, incense, instep, interest, item, knoll, long ages, lord, luck, main, manuscript, marquis, paragraph, pleasure, prince, proof, public, result, rising ground, same kind, -school, season, sentence, seventh sign of the Chinese calendar, shell, success, such, this, threat, thus, to ask, to be in love, to invite, to request, urgent, verbal pause, version, weather), めした (inferior, junior), じゅうたる (accessory, incidental, junior, secondary), じゅうてき (secondary), てした (underling). (various references)

Korean 

부 (blowing, Department, loosening, VICE, Wealth). (various references)

Manx

injillaghey (change down, cheap, cheap morally, condescend, cut, cut down, debase, defer, degradation, degrade, demote, demotion, depreciate, depreciation, depress, depression, die down, humiliate, humiliation, level down, reduce, reduction, relegate, sink, step down, subdue, subject, submit, subordination, turn down, vulgarization, vulgarize), curmeydagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

ubordinatesay

Polish

podwładny. (various references)

Portuguese

subalterno (dependant, dependent, inferior, menial, puisne, secondary, subaltern), inferior (bad, below, blanket, bottom, brutish, catchpenny, cheap, coarse, common, corny, currish, dependant, dependent, ground floor, hereinafter, inelaborate, inferior, less, lesser, low, mean, menial, minor, nether, poor, trashy, under, undermost, unequal, wishy-washy). (various references)

Romanian

subsuma, subordonat (adjective, adjunct, ancillary, dependent, inferior, junior, paternalized, under), subordona, subaltern (appendant, subaltern, underling), secundar (adjective, bye, secondary, seconds hand, subsidiary), inferior (base, below the mark, bottom, coarse, feeble, inferior, less, lesser, lower, mean, Nether, penny-a-line, second, under), ajutãtor (accessary, additional, adjuvant, assistant, auxiliary, helpful, helping, pony, secondary, supplementary), adiţional (additional, adscititious, further, odd, secondary, supplementary), accesoriu (accessary, accessories, accessory, accidental, adjunct, adjunctive, adventitious, appendant, appurtenance, appurtenant, attachment, bye, fixture, second, secondary, subsidiary). (various references)

Russian 

второстепенный (accidental, casual, collateral, minor, off, second, secondary, subsidiary), вторичный (secondary), подчинять (subdue, subdues, subject, subjugate), подчиненный (dependant, dependent, inferior, junior, offspring, parent-offspring, servient, subaltern, subdued, subject, subservient, under). (various references)

Scottish

maor (an officer of justice or of estates, subordinate officer in various). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zavisan (contingent, dependent), podrediti (down), podređeni, podređen (subaltern, subservient). (various references)

Spanish

subordinado (ancillary, dependant, dependent, subservient, underling). (various references)

Swedish

underordnad (adjunct, anciliary, ancillary, dependent, inferior, junior, minor, second, secondary, sobordinate, subaltern, subsidiary, under), underordna (minor, subjugate). (various references)

Turkish

yan (ancillary, aslant, asquint, awry, by-, bye-, collateral, flank, flanking, lateral, parietal, side, sidelong, sideward), tabi (dependant, dependent, linked, subject, subject to), madun, emrine vermek, emrindeki, desteklemek (advocate, assist, back up, bear out, bear smb. out, bolster, bolster up, brace, buoy, buttress, champion, countenance, encourage, endorse, Favor, favour, fortify, give a leg up, give countenance to, go along with, help forward, hold up, identify, indorse, keep smb. in countenance, lend countenance to, logroll, nourish, patronize, promote, prop, root for, second, shore, sponsor, spoonfeed, stake, stanchion, stand, stand by, start, stick up for, strengthen, support, sustain, underpin, uphold), bağlamak (affiliate, assign, attach, attribute, band, bandage, belay, bend, bind, bond, brace, braid, clasp, colligate, concatenate, conjoin, connect, copulate, cord, couple, do up, engage, enthral, enthrall, fasten, fasten up, fix, fixate, grapple, guy, hitch, hook on, hook up, infix, interconnect, interlink, interlock, inthral, join, knit, knit together, knit up, knot, lace, lace up, lash, lash down, leash, ligature, link, link up, lock, lock up, mediatize, oblige, put through, rivet, rope, settle, string, switch to, tether, tie, tie down, tie up, truss, unite, Wed), bağlı (adherent, adhesive, affiliated, amenable, appurtenant, attached, banded, bonded, bound, cohesive, conditional, conjoint, connected, consequent, corded, dependant, dependent, devoted, faithful, germane, hooked, incidental, laced, observant, related, subject, subject to, tied, under), ast (bye, inferior, junior, sub-, subaltern, underling, understrapper), alt (base, bottom, buttom, inferior, infra, infra-, lower, lower part, Nether, sub-, under, underneath, underside). (various references)

Turkmen 

tabyn. (various references)

Ukrainian

залежний (adjective, dependent, feudatory, reliant, subject, vassal), підрядний, підлеглий (adjective, ancillary, dependant, dependent, inferior, junior, secondary, subaltern, subservient, under), підпорядковувати (oppress), другорядний (accessary, accessory, accidental, less, minor, non essential, off, secondary). (various references)

Vietnamese 

phụ thuộc (accidental, ancillary, dependant, dependent, tributary), phụ (accessary, accessory, assistant, associate, auxiliary, bye, extra, secondary, subsidiary), người dưới quyền, người cấp dưới, lệ thuộc ở dưới quyền, cấp dưới. (various references)

1. dun. (various references)

cane, canem, canes, cani, canibus, canis, canum, minor, minore, minorem, minores, minori, minoribus, minoris, sub, subdita, subditae, subditas, subditi, subditis, subdito, subditos, subditum, subditus, subditusque, summitto. (various references)

subordinatus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "subordinate": subordinated, subordinately, subordinateness, subordinatenesses, subordinates. (additional references)

Words ending with "subordinate": insubordinate. (additional references)

Words containing "subordinate": insubordinately, insubordinates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Subordinate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: isubordinate, Sbordini, sobordinate, subodinate, subordanate, subordinater. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: boundaries.

-2 letters: adsorbent, baritones, bastioned, botanised, braunites, breadnuts, durations, eastbound, indurates, isobutane, obtainers, ordinates, outraised, reobtains, subeditor, taborines, urbanised, urbanites.

-3 letters: airbound, aneroids, arointed, asteroid, astonied, audients, auditors, bandores, banister, baritone, barniest, baronets, baronies, bartends, baudrons, bedouins, bedsonia, bornites, botanies, botanise, bounders, bountied, bounties, brandies, braunite, breadnut, broadens, broadest, burstone, daubiest, daubries, daunters.

+1 letter: subordinated, subordinates.

+2 letters: insubordinate, subordinately, subordinative.

+3 letters: insubordinates, rediscountable.

+4 letters: insubordinately, subordinateness.

+5 letters: decarburizations, disequilibration, redistributional.