Betydelse av subordinate på svenska

• 0 having a lower or less important position:

  • a subordinate role

  • subordinate status

  • The individual's needs are subordinate to those of the group.

• 1 a person who has a less important position than you in an organization:

  • He left the routine checks to one of his subordinates.

• 2 a word whose meaning is included in the meaning of another word:

  • "Dog" is a subordinate of the category "pet".

• 3 to put someone or something into a less important position:

  • Her personal life has been subordinated to her career.

• 4 having a lower or less important position:

  • I’m happy in a subordinate role.

• 5 to treat someone or something as less important than something else:

  • Japan has a tradition of subordinating individual desires to group goals.

• 6 having less power or a lower position than someone else in a company or an organization:

  • subordinate to sb The condition of motherhood often makes women subordinate to men in the workplace.

  • a subordinate employee/position/role Before reaching the level of head chef, there was the hard work and subordinate positions in kitchens.

  • Women are in the minority in the office and are of subordinate status to most of their male colleagues.

• 7 less important than something else:

  • Primary legislation can be amended; subordinate legislation cannot.

  • subordinate to sth The institute will make the acquired debt subordinate to any new bank lending.

• 8 →  subordinated

• 9 a person who has a less important position than you in a company or an organization:

  • Senior managers had to convince their colleagues and subordinates of the value of this approach.

• 10 to put someone or something into a less important position:

  • Management found itself subordinated to the markets.