Definition of subordinate Subordinate

/sʌbɔˈɹdʌnejˌt/ - [suborduneyt] - sub•or•di•nate

We found 22 definitions of subordinate from 6 different sources.

What does subordinate mean?

WordNet

Noun Plural: subordinates
subordinate - an assistant subject to the authority or control of another
		subsidiary, underling, foot soldier
		assistant, helper, help, supporter a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; "my invaluable assistant"; "they hired additional help to finish the work"
		associate any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another; "first was the lightning and then its thunderous associate"
		bottom dog a person of low status
		cog tooth on the rim of gear wheel
		man game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games; "he taught me to set up the men on the chess board"; "he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage"
subordinate - a word that is more specific than a given word
		hyponym, subordinate word
Verb subordinates, subordinating, subordinated
subordinate - rank or order as less important or consider of less value; "Art is sometimes subordinated to Science in these schools"
		rank, rate, grade, range, order, place take or have a position relative to others; "This painting ranks among the best in the Western World"
		outclass cause to appear in a lower class; "The Yankees outclassed Cincinnati"
subordinate - make subordinate, dependent, or subservient; "Our wishes have to be subordinated to that of our ruler"
		subdue
		lour, lower set lower; "lower a rating"; "lower expectations"
Adjective
subordinate - lower in rank or importance
		low-level
		dominant exercising influence or control; "television plays a dominant role in molding public opinion"; "the dominant partner in the marriage"
		inferior of or characteristic of low rank or importance
		subordinate lower in rank or importance
		status, position the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society; "he had the status of a minor"; "the novel attained the status of a classic"; "atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life"
		assistant, adjunct of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another
		associate having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status; "an associate member"; "an associate professor"
		secondary belonging to a lower class or rank
subordinate - subject or submissive to authority or the control of another; "a subordinate kingdom"
		insubordinate disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority
		submissive inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination; "submissive servants"; "a submissive reply"; "replacing troublemakers with more submissive people"
		subordinate, low-level lower in rank or importance
		feudatory owing feudal allegiance to or being subject to a sovereign; "it remained feudatory to India until 1365"
		ruled subject to a ruling authority; "the ruled mass"
		subject, dependent likely to be affected by something; "the bond is subject to taxation"; "he is subject to fits of depression"
subordinate - (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"
		dependent
		grammar the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics)

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Wiktionary

subordinate (Noun)
One who is subordinate.
subordinate (Verb)
To make subservient.
subordinate (Verb)
To treat as of less value or importance.
subordinate (Verb)
To make of lower priority in order of payment in bankruptcy.
subordinate (Adjective)
Placed in a lower class, rank, or position.
subordinate (Adjective)
Submissive to or controlled by authority.
subordinate (Adjective)
dependent on and either modifying or complementing the main clause.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

subordinate (a.)
Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.
subordinate (a.)
Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like.
subordinate (n.)
One who stands in order or rank below another; -- distinguished from a principal.
subordinate (v. t.)
To place in a lower order or class; to make or consider as of less value or importance; as, to subordinate one creature to another.
subordinate (v. t.)
To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to subordinate the passions to reason.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

subordinate
A person who is submissive to or controlled by a person of higher class, rank or position.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

subordinate
sub-or′di-nāt, adj. lower in order, rank, nature, power, &c.: descending in a regular series.—n. one in a lower order or rank: an inferior.—v.t. to place in a lower order: to consider of less value: to make subject.—ns. Subor′dinacy, Subor′dinance, the state of being subordinate.—adv. Subor′dinately.—ns. Subor′dinateness; Subordinā′tion, act of subordinating or placing in a lower order: state of being subordinate: inferiority of rank or position; Subordinā′tionism, the doctrine of the inferiority of the second and third Persons of the Trinity to the first.—adj. Subor′dinātive, tending to, or expressing, subordination. [L. sub, under, ordo, ordinis, order.]

Part of speech

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subordinate, verb, present, 1st person singular of subordinate (infinitive).
subordinate, verb (infinitive).
subordinate, noun, singular of subordinates.