Subordinate
[sə'bɔːdɪnət] or [sə'bɔdɪnet]
Definition
(noun.) an assistant subject to the authority or control of another.
(verb.) make subordinate, dependent, or subservient; 'Our wishes have to be subordinated to that of our ruler'.
(verb.) rank or order as less important or consider of less value; 'Art is sometimes subordinated to Science in these schools'.
(adj.) lower in rank or importance .
(adj.) subject or submissive to authority or the control of another; 'a subordinate kingdom' .
Typist: Sanford--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.
(a.) Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like.
(n.) One who stands in order or rank below another; -- distinguished from a principal.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to subordinate the passions to reason.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Inferior, subservient, subject, ancillary, minor, secondary.
n. Inferior, dependant.
v. a. Subject, make subordinate, make subservient.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See SUBDUE]
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Definition
adj. lower in order rank nature power &c.: descending in a regular series.—n. one in a lower order or rank: an inferior.—v.t. to place in a lower order: to consider of less value: to make subject.—ns. Subor′dinacy Subor′dinance the state of being subordinate.—adv. Subor′dinately.—ns. Subor′dinateness; Subordinā′tion act of subordinating or placing in a lower order: state of being subordinate: inferiority of rank or position; Subordinā′tionism the doctrine of the inferiority of the second and third Persons of the Trinity to the first.—adj. Subor′dinātive tending to or expressing subordination.
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Examples
- Daguerreotypy, while the father of them all, is now hardly practised as Daguerre practised it, and has become a small subordinate sub-division of the great class. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- They are subordinate to the situation, therefore, not the situation to them. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Great Britain has hitherto suffered her subject and subordinate provinces to disburden themselves upon her of almost this whole expense. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In function and process, one man, one part, must of necessity be subordinate to another. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Golz was a good general and a fine soldier but they always kept him in a subordinate position and never gave him a free hand. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- And thus, the forms of life throughout the universe become divided into groups subordinate to groups. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Again, of course no subordinate would have dared to do such a thing. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- There never was a request made, that I am aware of, either of the flag-officer or any of his subordinates, that was not promptly complied with. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- And as certainly these habits of mind percolated down from them to their subordinates and to the general body of the population. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was a large, austere man, and I judge difficult of approach to his subordinates. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The command of the advance of the pursuit was left to subordinates, whilst Thomas followed far behind. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We have just pointed out the futility of trying to establish the aim of education--some one final aim which subordinates all others to itself. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Most of his alleged subordinates were in fact independent, and willing to make war on the king at the slightest provocation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As a general rule, Edison does not get genuinely angry at mistakes and other human weaknesses of his subordinates; at best he merely simulates anger. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It depends upon a unity of purpose to which details are subordinated, not upon presenting a multitude of disconnected details. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- They really believed that the vast populations of eastern Asia could be permanently subordinated to such a Europe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They pursued schemes in which the welfare of Carthage was no doubt subordinated to the advantage of their own group. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And it is to this separate development that education coming from social contact is to be subordinated. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Our suspicion of the collectivist arrangement is aroused by the picture of a vast state machine so horribly well-regulated that human impulse is utterly subordinated. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- As conditions change, certain factors are subordinated, and others which had been of minor importance come to the front. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In what department of thought is imagination more strictly subordinated than in science? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In every machine the primary state of material has been modified by subordinating it to use for a purpose. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Typist: Sanford