Subordinate - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- a word that is more specific than a given word
verb
adjective
- subject or submissive to authority or the control of another
Extra examples
...his contention is that environment plays a subordinate role to heredity in determining what we become...
She leaves the day-to-day running of the firm to her subordinates.
...subordinates do most of the actual creation of the famous designer's clothing designs...
He plays a subordinate part.
All other considerations had to be subordinated to the needs of the family.
They had to subordinate their own needs to the needs of the group.
Women were subordinate to men.
These aims were subordinate to the main aims of the mission.
Why subordinate your wishes to those of your family?
The individual's needs are subordinate to those of the group.
Art is sometimes subordinated to Science in these schools
Our wishes have to be subordinated to that of our ruler
...it is one of the lessons of history that more powerful civilizations often subordinate weaker ones...
...making unwelcome suggestive remarks to a subordinate will be regarded as sexual harassment...
In painting colour is subordinate to form.
Word forms
I/you/we/they: subordinate
he/she/it: subordinates
present participle: subordinating
past tense: subordinated
past participle: subordinated
singular: subordinate
plural: subordinates
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