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an assistant subject to the authority or control of another make subordinate, dependent, or subservient; "Our wishes have to be subordinated to that of our ruler" rank or order as less important or consider of less value; "Art is sometimes subordinated to Science in these schools" lower in rank or importance adjunct, associate(a), buck, under(a), secondary subject or submissive to authority or the control of another; "a subordinate kingdom" feudatory, ruled, subject, subservient, submissive a word that is more specific than a given word 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" inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary" junior |
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