What part of speech is subsidiary?

Subsidiary can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

Inflections

Noun

What does subsidiary mean?

Definitions

Adjective

subsidiary - functioning in a supporting capacity; "the main library and its auxiliary branches"

Noun

subsidiary - an assistant subject to the authority or control of another
subsidiary - a company that is completely controlled by another company

Examples of subsidiary

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1. noun This unsuccessful venture was soon followed by a falling-out with his Iraqi partner, who sought to acquire additional oil revenue sources in the neighboring emirate of Kuwait, a wholly-owned U.S.-British subsidiary.
2. noun The company is our wholly-owned subsidiary.
3. noun Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten.
4. noun It's a wholly-owned subsidiary, but it maintains some independence from its parent company.
Sentence  
noun
This unsuccessful venture was soon followed by a falling-out with his Iraqi partner, who sought to acquire additional oil revenue sources in the neighboring emirate of Kuwait, a wholly-owned U.S.-British subsidiary.
The company is our wholly-owned subsidiary.
Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten.
It's a wholly-owned subsidiary, but it maintains some independence from its parent company.

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