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subordinate English

Meaning subordinate meaning

What does subordinate mean?
Definitions in simple English

subordinate Adjective

— If something is subordinate, it is less important than someone or something else. Keeping our natural world healthy remains subordinate to the health of the economy. In society a dominant group often ignores the wishes of subordinate groups.

subordinate Noun

— A subordinate is someone who is at a lower position in an organization. A good manager will talk with her subordinates before making most decisions.

subordinate Verb

— If you subordinate mathx/math to mathy/math, you give less importance to mathx/math and more to mathy/math. When he fell in love, everything else was subordinated to it.

subordinate

— noun an assistant subject to the authority or control of another — adjective lower in rank or importance — verb rank or order as less important or consider of less value Art is sometimes subordinated to Science in these schools — adjective subject or submissive to authority or the control of another a subordinate kingdom — verb make subordinate, dependent, or subservient Our wishes have to be subordinated to that of our ruler — adjective (= dependent) (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 — noun (= hyponym) a word that is more specific than a given word

Synonyms subordinate synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as subordinate?

subordinate English » English

inferior underling secondary subject dependent subsidiary junior assistant lower stooge minor minion lackey subdue incidental follower deputy auxiliary subordinate word subjugate low-level henchman foot soldier flunky dependant affiliated accessory yes man worker under supplementary subservient subjugated servant menial labourer hyponym employee ancillary adjunct yeoman vice- utility man unimportant unessential supporter substitute subordinate part subjected staffer

Topics subordinate topics

What do people use subordinate to talk about?
Social behavior Authority Status

Low status

Conjugation subordinate conjugation

How do you conjugate subordinate?

subordinate · verb

Examples subordinate examples

How do I use subordinate in a sentence?

Simple sentences

He is my subordinate.
I was stabbed in the back by my subordinate.
He's only a subordinate.

Movie subtitles

He's a subordinate commander.
I'm his subordinate so I'm stuck, but you're free.
Am I to understand that Gladstone has cursed me. not only with a spy, but with a subordinate. who thinks he knows more than I do?
But you are subordinate to Captain Kirk's orders, even to his whims.
It is not unknown for a mutinous subordinate to be executed!
I hope so for both your sakes, since you vouch for your subordinate, my dear director.
There is a law that weapons may only be issued under direct orders from Caesar, not under threats from a thick-headed subordinate, for whom war means only personal glory.
The subordinate of a boss whom, at first, he was too terrified to identify.
I am Simeon, senior subordinate officer of the garrison.
I must apologise for my subordinate.
Well, sir, I am a soldier, and as a soldier, I feel it is my duty to subordinate my own ideas to the principles of my country, right or wrong.
Everything. Everything must be subordinate to that purpose.
I couldn't see a man of your obvious talents in a subordinate position.
The subordinate of death raises his hand without fear to drink.
I like having a gentleman as my subordinate, being a self-made man.
Colonel Howard was my subordinate and my dearest friend.
That's why we have set up one of our best special agents there. His identity is known only. to the chief of the Federal Crime Bureau and myself. to avoid any kind of leak to subordinate organizations. He has been staying at the Luxor for some time now.
I came to you not as a subordinate, but as a person to person.
Captain Kirk is your commanding officer and you are his subordinate.
I wonder if you would be kind enough to make sure that I keep. my subordinate position at the bank.
The 1850 series was initialled by the governor or his subordinate in Georgetown, it's the capital of British Guiana.
However his sister, E.K. Mizandari, said, that in 1965 she worked at Depot No 2 as a subordinate of Papishvili.
We will confront her felonious subordinate, confirm his guilt. and then stop pounding the dreary pavements of white collar crime.
You were so winning as the adoring subordinate, Mildred.
To be my subordinate.
And in a subordinate position besides?
Captain Kirk is your commanding officer and you are his subordinate, and that is all.
First, Wolf has to talk with Dulles not on behalf of you, or of himself, but on behalf of Kesselring. He's subordinate to him in Italy.
He's Deputy Commander in Italy and is not directly subordinate to you.
An unfortunate move by a subordinate of mine.
Everything must be subordinate to that purpose.
And you, chief of the local police department, can't call your subordinate inspector to order?
One global idea should subordinate all the minor ones related to our behavior and everyday life.

News and current affairs

It will subordinate all who really do work - traders, warriors, journalists, and others - to party ideologues whose sole job is to search for enemies.
For the time being, the Chinese public is willing to subordinate its individual freedom to political stability and economic advancement.
But that may not continue indefinitely - and the rest of the world will never subordinate its freedom to the prosperity of the Chinese state.
Although China's economic renaissance had already begun under Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese Communist Party, after 1989, was able publicly to subordinate ideology to wealth creation.
The twenty-or-more institutions of this type are run by the Ministry of Public Security and are subordinate provincial departments.
Re-equilibration: The Party protects its legitimacy, keeps the military subordinate, and manages to put a lid on popular dissent.
Cultural, racial, and religious dimensions may, of course, be subordinate factors that need to be considered, but they are not the main causes of unemployment and marginalization.
Lady Ashton will need to be firm in dealing with Russia and with member states who subordinate Europe to the commercial interests of their national energy companies.
This belief is the ultimate reason to reject cultural arguments that would subordinate some - women, for example - within a society.
Nor does the cash nexus subordinate the individual to the will of the state.
The real danger to the president-elect is Menem's legacy: a judiciary that is subordinate to political might, a system of political parties that cannot stay afloat financially without engaging in corruption, and economic chaos.
That summit marks the moment to begin fulfilling President Putin's call to subordinate foreign policy to Russia's economic interests.
Such was the epistemic position of the Middle Ages, which presumed all humans to be mutually equal but subordinate to an inscrutable God.
Bondholders were saved because governments generally chose to infuse cash in exchange for common or preferred shares - which are subordinate to bondholders' claims - or to improve balance sheets by buying or guaranteeing the value of assets.
If the political environment continues to develop in this manner, Greater Europe, torn by conflicts rooted in its past, will have to take a subordinate role on the global stage.
While Russia was launching its bid to subordinate Ukraine, I was in prison, with scant hope of ever regaining my freedom.
Governments may sign treaties and make solemn commitments to subordinate their fiscal policy to EU rules (or to be more precise, to the wishes of Germany and the European Central Bank).
Today, the contemporary version of the KGB, the Federal Security Bureau (FSB), runs Russia's energy businesses in much the same top-down way that the KGB once ran the Soviet Union, with business always subordinate to the regime's political needs.
For example, Israel has reached out to those Arab countries that are willing to subordinate the Palestinian problem to discreet bilateral relations, essentially on security matters.
But it is not impossible - as long as policymakers understand the critical role played by the exchange rate and the need to subordinate capital flows to the requirements of competitiveness.
The Orange Revolution of 2004, which overturned a rigged presidential election, proved that Ukraine was no longer a Malorossiya (a small Russia), an inferior and subordinate Slavic brother.
It follows from this that constitutions must be changed to reduce the role of Congress, subordinate the judiciary, and centralize economic resources.
The NBU is subordinate to President Viktor Yushchenko, who, despite naming Tymoshenko as prime minister, seems more interested in harming her politically than in capping inflation.

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