subordinate

IPA: sʌbˈɔrdʌneɪt

(transitive) To make subservient.
(transitive) To treat as of less value or importance.
(transitive, finance) To make of lower priority in order of payment in bankruptcy.

Placed in a lower class, rank, or position.
Submissive or inferior to, or controlled by authority.
(grammar, of a clause, not comparable) dependent on and either modifying or complementing the main clause
Descending in a regular series.

Examples of "subordinate" in Sentences

The parish is subordinated to the diocese.
The CNTA is subordinate to the State Council.
It was subordinate directly to the Emperor of the French.
It is subordinate to the Federal Ministry of the Interior.
The German King theoretically was subordinate to the Emperor.
This is super common in subordinate male loose affilitations.
The BKA is subordinate to the Federal Ministry of the Interior.
Both the state and the church were subordinate to this autocracy.
It is currently professionally subordinate to the head of the CID.
The Knights were nominally subordinate to the pope and the emperor.
She's in subordinate position A position where she needs to be humble.
In subordinate clauses, the modal auxiliary follows the perfect participle.
So I asked the students, what do you think about the term subordinate group?
Yet sometimes, others, in subordinate positions, want to come in and break down that structure.
Thus, transferring accountability to a subordinate is never assumed, and needs to be spelled out.
Thus, equality of rights can keep women and minorities in subordinate positions because they are “different.”
Ex-president Clinton famously evaded a question regarding his exploitation of women in subordinate positions by responding "it all depends on the meaning of the word 'is'."
Hey ralph, it seems a subordinate is trying desperately to rise in the social heirarchy by attempting to build a social affiliation with a higher ranking member of the troop ….