subordination
IPA: sʌbɔrdʌnˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- The process of making something subordinate.
- The process of subordinating.
- The property of being subordinate; inferiority of rank or position.
- The quality of being properly obedient to a superior (as a superior officer).
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Examples of "subordination" in Sentences
- In the Services this quality reaches its maximum during war when the military demands the ultimate in subordination of self-the surrender of life.
- The subordination is supported by the actions of individuals, cultural norms and values, and the institutional structures and practices of society.
- But if democracy is based upon human values, if it sets the state in subordination to the individual, it meets, in those respects, the mind and spirit of the Hindu.
- Western-style democracy, rationalism, objectivity, and the autonomy of the individual are slogans designed to convince the downtrodden that subordination is justice ...
- It makes no difference whether the combination is one of workers or of employers, a corporation or a labour union, it must live in subordination to the public interest.
- – I feel like the jump from the first clause (the ultimate cost for subordination is her memories) to the second (can she master the art of mind-hacking without blowing her cover?) is kind of awkward.
- Qom's lack of subordination is a threat to Khamenei's rule and to the long-term survival of the Islamic Republic -- a system which prides itself with fusing (at least in theory) Islamic values and a republican form of governance.