Subsidiary
[səb'sɪdɪərɪ] or [səb'sɪdɪɛri]
Definition
(a.) Furnishing aid; assisting; auxiliary; helping; tributary; especially, aiding in an inferior position or capacity; as, a subsidiary stream.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a subsidy; constituting a subsidy; being a part of, or of the nature of, a subsidy; as, subsidiary payments to an ally.
(n.) One who, or that which, contributes aid or additional supplies; an assistant; an auxiliary.
Editor: Woodrow
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Assistant, auxiliary, co-operating, subservient.
Edited by Babbage
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Assistant, ancillary, helpful, adjuvant, conducive, favourable, promotive,adminicular, corroborative, tending
ANT:Opponent, obstructive, preventative, inconducive, unfavorable, retardative,subversive, counteractive
Typed by Adele
Examples
- At their bases there is a short subsidiary row of obliquely transverse lamellae. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Within the main row there are some subsidiary rows. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- In 1910 the American Banker estimated that there were 1,198 corporations with 8,110 subsidiaries liable to all the penalties of the Sherman Act. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Checker: Vernon