Definition of subordinates Subordinates
/sʌbɔˈɹdʌnejˌts/ - [suborduneyts] -
We found 5 definitions of subordinates from 2 different sources.
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What does subordinates mean?
Wiktionary 
- subordinates (Noun)
Plural of subordinate. - subordinates (Verb)
Third person singular simple present of to subordinate.
Part of speech
🔤- subordinates, verb, present, 3rd person singular of subordinate (infinitive).
- subordinates, noun, plural of subordinate.
WordNet
NounPlural: subordinates |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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subordinate
A person who is submissive to or controlled by a person of higher class, rank or position.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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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
🔤- subordinate, verb, present, 1st person singular of subordinate (infinitive).
- subordinate, verb (infinitive).
- subordinate, noun, singular of subordinates.
