0 the act of giving someone or something less importance or power:
She claims that society is still characterized by male domination and female subordination.
Ordinary women's inferior rights to land were a key aspect in women's subordination as a whole.
What sympathetic readers should do about linguistic subordination, if they come to share her libertarianism, isn't easy to determine.
It, however, opposed the dissolution of the islands' dual subordination as unnecessary action for the following reasons.
Their subordination in the existing state, even if they are only a small minority of it, cannot be consistent with respect for popular sovereignty.
Lastly, aspects of subordination and domination are of central significance, and can create an unstable, ambiguous quality in its social exchanges.
He works out a system of constraints on the domain of quantification which accounts for quantificational subordination.
This covert conceptual subordination is the factor that maintains racism.
For example, if this theorem is applied with the complete subordination relation, the restrictions are the identity and the theorem yields no information.