subordinate

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Mr. Page is right theoretically when he says that the treatment of a servant or of a subordinate is an infallible criterion of manners, and when he rebukes the "arrogance" of wealthy women to "their hapless sisters of toil."

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  1. adjective Belonging to a lower or inferior class or rank; secondary.
  2. adjective Subject to the authority or control of another.
  3. noun One that is subordinate.
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  • In dyads in which only the subordinate was injected with formalin, their dominant observer partner displayed consistently higher levels of Self-grooming behavior compared with those exhibited by subordinate observers that in other dyads were exposed to their dominant companion in pain. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • When the fuming Colarusso emerged after upbraiding a subordinate, the prim Conde Nastee asked Dan whether there "really had to be so much screaming around here."
  • Even though Benest and Yeats have retired and Harrison left to work for Santa Clara County under the patrongage of Liz Kniss after being disciplined for harassing a subordinate, the culture of the City of Palo Alto organization has not changed.
  • The legislatures of Britain's North American colonies were not supreme courts, like Parliament; they were subordinate bodies -- subordinate, in fact, to Parliament. —  Powell's Books: Overview
  • The government is controlled above the president and if he is not subordinate, they will ruin him politically. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
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  1. Middle English subordinat, from Medieval Latin subōrdinātus, past participle of subōrdināre, to put in a lower rank : Latin sub-, sub- + Latin ōrdināre, to set in order (from ōrdō, ōrdin-, order; see ar- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Middle Latin subordinatus, past participle of subordinare (later Italian subordinaro = Spanish Portuguese subordinar = French subordonner), place in a lower order, make subject, from Latin sub, under, + ordinare, order, arrange: see ordinate, order, v.
  2. = French subordonné = Spanish Portuguese subordinado = Italian subordinate, from Middle Latin subordinatus, place in a lower order: see subordinate, v.
 

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/səbˈɔrdɪnət/
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