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   subordinate

   adjective

   • 1. lower in rank or position: "his subordinate officers" Similar lower-rankingjuniorlowerlesserinferiorlowlyminorsupportingsecond-fiddleOpposite superiorsenior
   • ▪ of less or secondary importance: "in adventure stories, character must be subordinate to action" Similar secondarylesserminorsubsidiarysubservientancillaryauxiliaryattendantperipheralmarginalof little account/importancesecond-classsecond-ratesecond-fiddlesupplementaryaccessoryadditionalextraOpposite centralmajorchief

   noun

   • 1. a person under the authority or control of another within an organization: "he was mild-mannered, especially with his subordinates"

   verb

   • 1. treat or regard as of lesser importance than something else: "practical considerations were subordinated to political expediency"
   • ▪ make subservient to or dependent on something else: "to define life would be to subordinate it to reason"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from medieval Latin subordinatus ‘placed in an inferior rank’, from Latin sub- ‘below’ + ordinare ‘ordain’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. subordinately adverb
   • 2. subordinative adjective

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