| subordinate | | |
| n. (person) | 1. foot soldier, subordinate, subsidiary, underling | an assistant subject to the authority or control of another. |
| ~ 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 | a person with subordinate membership in a society, institution, or commercial enterprise.; "associates in the law firm bill at a lower rate than do partners" |
| ~ bottom dog | a person of low status. |
| ~ cog | a subordinate who performs an important but routine function.; "he was a small cog in a large machine" |
| ~ man | a male subordinate.; "the chief stationed two men outside the building"; "he awaited word from his man in Havana" |
| ~ second fiddle, second banana | someone who serves in a subordinate capacity or plays a secondary role. |
| n. (communication) | 2. hyponym, subordinate, subordinate word | a word that is more specific than a given word. |
| ~ word | a unit of language that native speakers can identify.; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning" |
| v. (cognition) | 3. subordinate | rank or order as less important or consider of less value.; "Art is sometimes subordinated to Science in these schools" |
| ~ grade, rate, rank, place, range, order | assign a rank or rating to.; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide" |
| ~ outclass | cause to appear in a lower class.; "The Yankees outclassed Cincinnati" |
| v. (change) | 4. subdue, subordinate | make subordinate, dependent, or subservient.; "Our wishes have to be subordinated to that of our ruler" |
| ~ lour, lower | set lower.; "lower a rating"; "lower expectations" |
| adj. | 5. low-level, subordinate | lower in rank or importance. |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ under | lower in rank, power, or authority.; "an under secretary" |
| ~ subordinate | subject or submissive to authority or the control of another.; "a subordinate kingdom" |
| ~ inferior | of or characteristic of low rank or importance. |
| adj. | 6. subordinate | subject or submissive to authority or the control of another.; "a subordinate kingdom" |
| ~ 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 | being under the power or sovereignty of another or others.; "subject peoples"; "a dependent prince" |
| ~ subservient | compliant and obedient to authority.; "editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones" |
| adj. | 7. dependent, 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" |
| ~ grammar | the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics). |
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