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Definition: Subsidiary |
SubsidiaryAdjective1. Relating to something that is added but is not essential; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxilliary to each other". 2. Functioning in a subsidiary or supporting capacity; "the main library and its auxiliary branches". Noun1. Someone subject to the authority or control of another. 2. A company that is completely controlled by another company. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "subsidiary" was first used: 1543. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Economics | Any organization more than 50 percent of whose voting stock is owned by another firm. (references) |
| A company in which another company, the holding company, holds normally more than 50 per cent of the share capital. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Finance | An organization controlled by another organization or company. (references) |
Law | Enterprise of which another enterprise has at its disposal more than half of the capital or of the voting rights or of which it can designate more than half of the members of the bodies having legal representation rights or of which it has the right in any other way to manage the business activities. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: SubsidiarySynonyms: accessory (adj), adjunct (adj), adjuvant (adj), ancillary (adj), appurtenant (adj), auxiliary (adj), supplemental (adj), supplementary (adj), subordinate (n), subsidiary company (n), underling (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Aid | Adjective: aiding; Verb: auxiliary, adjuvant, helpful; coadjuvant; subservient, ministrant, ancillary, accessory, subsidiary. |
Servant | Secretary; under secretary, assistant secretary; clerk; subsidiary; agent; subaltern; underling, understrapper; man. |
Tendency | Adjective: tending; Verb: conducive, working towards, in a fair way to, calculated to; liable; subservient; (instrumental); useful; subsidiary; (helping). |
Utility | Adjective: useful; of use; Noun: serviceable, proficuous, good for; subservient; (instrumental).; conducive; (tending); subsidiary; (helping). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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 | The Bessis Levee, along a subsidiary of the Mississippi River, near Tiptonville, Tennessee. The levee has been augmented with sand bags during the 1937 flood. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Boys, we're backing you! Carnegie Steel Company subsidiary of United States Steel Corporation / / Marie Wilson. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | All German rights in the Tsingtao-Tsinanfu Railway, including its branch lines together with its subsidiary property of all kinds, stations, shops, fixed and rolling stock, mines, plant and material for the exploitation of the mines, are and remain acquired by Japan, together with all rights and privileges attaching thereto. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | It is the wholly-owned subsidiary of AAR International Corporation (USA). (references) | |
The second largest operator in the country is the Azurix subsidiary of Enron. (references) | ||
It has operations in 14 African countries run by its Johannesburg subsidiary. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Kenya | KTN, a subsidiary of the East African Standard group of newspapers that is owned by KANU supporters, airs news programs with more balanced political coverage than KBC. KTN broadcasts in Nairobi and Mombasa. (references) |
Economic History | Burundi | Judicial--Supreme Court and subsidiary courts. (references) |
Sri Lanka | Performance in other subsidiary food crops was mixed. (references) | |
Political Economy | CHINA | The ACFTU has control over all subsidiary union organizations and activities throughout the country. (references) |
SWITZERLAND | Foreign insurers wishing to do business in Switzerland are required to establish a subsidiary or a branch here. (references) | |
UNITED KINGDOM | Actions against subsidiaries of companies engaged in bargaining disputes are banned if the subsidiary is not the employer of record. (references) | |
Trade | Costa Rica | Many Costa Rican banks have subsidiary or affiliated banks registered offshore. (references) |
Bolivia | An imported product can be sold via established agents or distributors or through a subsidiary. (references) | |
Zambia | However Citibank Zambia Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Citicorp NY in the United States. (references) | |
Travel | Ghana | With the exception of the Northern areas (where a subsidiary of the Volta River Authority is the supplier), the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), is responsible for the distribution of electricity. (references) |
Thailand | Thai is the national language . English is the next most commonly spoken language, and is especially prevalent among the business community in Bangkok . (There are four distinct language dialects in Thailand, with the Central Thai dialect being the first language of 75 percent of the population.) Many Sino-Thai also speak Chinese . Because of the large number of Japanese subsidiary companies in Thailand, Japanese is also common in the business community. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Hong Kong | The Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance and its 27 sets of subsidiary regulations regulate safety and health conditions. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DOG, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. This Divine Being in some of his smaller and silkier incarnations takes, in the affection of Woman, the place to which there is no human male aspirant. The Dog is a survival -- an anachronism. He toils not, neither does he spin, yet Solomon in all his glory never lay upon a door-mat all day long, sun-soaked and fly-fed and fat, while his master worked for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition. |
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| "Subsidiary" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 71.44% of the time. "Subsidiary" is used about 1,305 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 71.44% | 932 | 7,743 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 27.79% | 363 | 14,875 |
| Noun (common) | 0.61% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.15% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,305 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "subsidiary": be subsidiary to ♦ subsidiary abroad ♦ subsidiary account ♦ subsidiary character ♦ subsidiary company ♦ subsidiary dam ♦ subsidiary hookup ♦ subsidiary industry ♦ subsidiary landing ♦ subsidiary ledger ♦ subsidiary reason ♦ subsidiary stream ♦ subsidiary subject ♦ unconsolidated subsidiary ♦ wholly owned subsidiary. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "subsidiary": parent-subsidiary, then-subsidiary. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "subsidiary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | suplementar (added, expletive, extra, odd, relief, run on, supplemental, supplementary), shtojce, shtese (additional, augmentative, collateral, excess, extra, relief), vartës (ancillary, dependant, dependent, menial, subaltern, subordinate, underling), ndihmës (accessary, accessory, acolyte, adjunct, adjutant, adjuvant, aid, aide, ancillary, assistant, auxiliary, candle holder, coadjutant, coadjutor, first mate, gillie, help, helper, henchman, mate, paramedical, second, secondary, servo, sidekick, tutor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فرعي (bye, sub), مساعد إضافي, مساعد (accessory, accomplice, advantageous, aid, ancillary, assistance, auxiliary, backing, beneficial, conducive, contributory, favorable, favourable, help, helpful, helpmate, propitious, serviceable, supplementary, support, useful), 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, subordinate, subsequent, subservient, tributary, under one's thumb, underlying, urge, vassal), خاضع (dependent, liable, subject, submissive, subordinate, tributary), إعاني, إضافي (additional, ancillary, auxiliary, bonus, extra, false, farther, further, more, overtime, spare, special, supplemental, supplementary), شخص إضافي, شركة فرعية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | субсидиран, спомагателен (accessary, accessory, accidental, adjunct, ancillary, auxiliary, helping, pilot, servo-, supporting, tributary), филиал (affiliate, branch, filiation, subsidiary company), от второстепенно значение, помощник (acolyte, adjunct, adjuvant, affiliate, aid, aide, ally, assistant, auxiliary, candle holder, coadjutor, confederate, help, helper, lieutenant, mate, pander, second, secondary), помощен (adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, auxiliary, helping, pilot, pony, relief, servo-, subservient), допълнителен (accessary, accessorial, accidental, additional, additive, adjunct, complementary, contributory, excess, expletive, extra, extraordinary, farther, follow up, fresh, further, over, plus, pony, relief, side, supplementary, tributary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 辅助者 (Subsidiaries). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vedlejší (accessory, accidental, adjoining, ancillary, by, collateral, extraneous, immaterial, incidental, minor, next, next door, off, secondary, subordinate, supporting, ulterior), pomocný (ancillary, assistant, auxiliary, instrumental), poboèný, přidìlený, dodateèný (additional, extra, supplementary), dceřiný (daughterly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | filial (affiliate, affiliation, branch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | dochtervennootschap (subsidiary company), dochteronderneming (subsidiary company), dochtermaatschappij (subsidiary company). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | akcesora fako (subsidiary subject). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فرعی (Accessory, Adjunct, Ancillary, By, Bye, Derivative, Extraneous, Inferior, Petty, Secondary, Sideway, Subordinate, Tributary), موید, متمم (Complementary, Supplement, Supplementary), معین (Accessory, Adjutant, Ally, Ancillary, Auxiliary, Definite, Given, Positive, Precise, Punctual, Regular, Specific, Standard), کمکی (Auxiliary, Secondary), تابع (Accessory, Adjective, Ancillary, Citizen, Function, Incident, Passive, Sub, Submission, Suffragan, Tributary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tytäryritys (subsidiary company). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | filiale (subsidiary company). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Tochtergesellschaft (subsidiary company), unterstützend (espousing, providing, supporting, supportingly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | θυγατρική. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מש י (incidental, minor, second, secondary), עוזר (aide, assistant, helper, helpful), חברת בת, טפלי (subordinate), טפל (additional, adjunct, ancillary, insipid, tasteless, unsalted), צ""י (accessory, incidental, lateral, side, sidelong, sideways). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | leányvállalat (affiliated firm, subsidiary company). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | cabang tambahan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | filiale (agency, branch, daughterly, filial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 子会社 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "がいしゃ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 자회사 (Subsidiaries). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | fo (assistant, below, dependent, junior, off, off of street, sunken; secondary, under, underlying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ubsidiarysay auxiliar (accessorial, accomodate, adjunct, adjuvant, aid, ancillary, assist, assistant, auxilary, auxiliary, avail, back, cad, candle-holder, favor, favour, friend, hand, handy man, help, helper, lend a hand, minister, ministerial, patronize, preventer, protect, relieve, second, secondary, succor, succour, support). (various references) sucursalã, subsidiar (auxiliary), secundar (adjective, bye, secondary, seconds hand, subordinate), filialã (branch, chapter), complimentar, auxiliar (accidental, additional, adjuvant, ancillary, assistant, auxiliary, supplementary), accesoriu (accessary, accessories, accessory, accidental, adjunct, adjunctive, adventitious, appendant, appurtenance, appurtenant, attachment, bye, fixture, second, secondary, subordinate). (various references) субсидируемый, филиал (affiliated company, affiliated societies, branch, branch establishment, branch house, branch office, filial agency, filial branch), вспомогательный (accessorial, adjuvant, ancillary, auxiliary, backed-up, intermediate, pilot, pony, relief, service, servo, supplementary), второстепенный (accidental, casual, collateral, minor, off, second, secondary, subordinate). (various references) supsidaran, pomoćnik (adjunct, adjuvant, aid, aide, associate, auxiliary, call-boy, coadjutor, contributor, deputy, famulus, help, helper, helpmate, helpmeet, mate, potman), pomoćni (adjunct, adventitious, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary, relief, suffragan), pomoćna stvar, podružnica (branch). (various references) sucursal (agency, branch, branch office, office), subsidiario, filial (affiliate, affiliated company, affiliated society, daughterly, filial), auxiliar (adjuvant, aid, ancillary, assistant, auxiliary, help, helper), afiliado (affiliate, joined). (various references) hjälp- (ancillary, assistant, auxiliary, remedial), bi- (ancillary, bi-, dubbel-, incidental, secondary). (various references) yardımcı (accessary, accessory, acolyte, adjunct, aid, aide, ancillary, assistant, auxiliary, Band aid, booster, coadjutor, collateral, contributory, cooperative, deputy, donkey, friend, help, helper, helpful, helpmate, helpmeet, henchman, lieutenant, obliging, second, sidekick, stand by, sub, suffragan, supporter, supporting, vice-), yan kuruluş, tâli (by-, collateral, secondary), ikincil (by-, bye-, derivative, extraneous, extrinsic, meso-, secondary, side), ikinci derecede (back burner, by-, circumstantial, non essential, one horse, second rate, secondary, second-degree, side), bağlı kimse, bağımlı (addict, addicted, clinging, confirmed, dependent, freak, given to, habitual, hooked, in the bondage of vice, interdependent, inveterate, linked, subject). (various references) субсидований, помічник (acolyte, adjunct, adjutant, adjuvant, aid, ally, assistant, auxiliary, candle holder, contributor, help, helper, helpmate, second, secondary, seconder, tender), дочірня компанія, допоміжний (accessary, accessorial, accessory, adjuvant, auxiliary, collateral, emergency, intermediate, ministerial, pilot, secondary, utility). (various references) vật phụ, trợ (associate), phụ (accessary, accessory, assistant, associate, auxiliary, bye, extra, secondary, subordinate), người phụ, người bổ sung (counterpart), bổ sung thuê. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | para-. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | subsidiarius. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Subsidiary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: subidiary, subsidairy, subsidary, subsideiary, subsidery, subsidiarie, subsidiatry, subsidiray, subsiduary, susidiary. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "subsidiary" (pronounced subsi"dēe'rē) |
| 4 | -ē e' r ē | aviary, beneficiary, fiduciary, judiciary, pecuniary, topiary. |
| 3 | -e' r ē | actuary, adversary, ancillary, apothecary, arbitrary, bicentenary, Blackberry, blueberry, budgetary, capillary, cardiopulmonary, Cassowary, cautionary, cemetery, centenary, cometary, commentary, commissary, concessionary, confectionary, confectionery, Constabulary, contemporary, corollary, coronary, counterrevolutionary, cranberry, culinary, customary, deflationary, depositary, Dewberry, dictionary, dietary, dignitary, disciplinary, discretionary, disinflationary, diversionary, Dogberry, dromedary, dysentery, emissary, epistolary, estuary, evolutionary, exclusionary, expansionary, expeditionary, extraordinary, formulary, fragmentary, functionary, funerary, gooseberry, hackberry, hereditary, honorary, Huckleberry, illusionary, imaginary, inflationary, interdisciplinary, interplanetary, involuntary, itinerary, lapidary, legendary, library, literary, luminary, mercenary, military, missionary, momentary, monastery, monetary, mortuary, mulberry, necessary, noninflationary, nonmilitary, obituary, ordinary, paramilitary, pituitary, planetary, preliminary, primary, probationary, proprietary, pulmonary, quaternary, raspberry, reactionary, recessionary, revolutionary, Rosemary, salutary, sanctuary, sanitary, savagery, secondary, secretary, sedentary, semilegendary, seminary, solitary, stationary, stationery, statuary, strawberry, temporary, Tilbury, tributary, undersecretary, unitary, unnecessary, unsanitary, urinary, veterinary, visionary, vocabulary. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-i-i-r-s-s-u-y" | |
-2 letters: dysurias. | |
-3 letters: absurds, disbars, dysuria, saiyids, sardius, subarid, subsidy. | |
-4 letters: absurd, airbus, braids, brassy, bursas, daubry, disbar, radius, sabirs, saiyid, sayids, sudary, urbias, yairds. | |
-5 letters: abris, abyss, arsis, auris, bards, basis, bassi, bassy, bauds, birds, brads, braid, brass, brays, buras, burds, bursa, byssi, dairy, daisy, darbs, daubs, dauby, diary, drabs, drays, dribs, drubs, duras. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-i-i-r-s-s-u-y" | |
+2 letters: subsidiarily, subsidiarity. | |
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