1 a person who has a less important position than you in an organization:
2 a word whose meaning is included in the meaning of another word:
3 to put someone or something into a less important position:
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:
10 to put someone or something into a less important position:
Certainly, subordinating local definitions to the dictum of the science of race required negotiation, and in some cases even training.
He points out that his example (5.26) - given here in (1) - ' with how understood as modifying treat their subordinates, is completely impossible ' (147).
Although these subordinating conjunction markers have lost their criterion of identity in semantics, they still retain noun-like properties in syntax.
Rather, legal authorities attempt to guide conduct by affecting the intentional agency of their subordinates.
In the hands and minds of some, chemistry was subordinated to the dictates and needs of medicine.
In the following examples, it may appear that these subordinating conjunctions can be modified by a demonstrative determiner.
Authentic texts also displayed a tendency toward having a higher incidence of adjectives and subordinating conjunctions and prepositions, but these findings only approached significance.
They also allow the dominant state to offer more valuable benefits to subordinates, such as security guarantees, military aid, and so on.
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從屬的,下級的, 次要的, 下屬,下級…
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从属的,下级的, 次要的, 下属,下级…
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subordinado, -a…
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subalterno, subordinado, -a…
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補佐的な, 下位の, 部下…
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ast, ast rütbede olan, alt kademede…
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subordonné (à), subordonné/-e…
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