subsidiary
IPA: sʌbsˈɪdiɛri
noun
- A company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company.
- (music) A subordinate theme.
- One who aids or supplies; an assistant.
adjective
- Auxiliary or supplemental.
- Secondary or subordinate.
- Of or relating to a subsidy.
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Examples of "subsidiary" in Sentences
- Energy is embedded in subsidiary issues including food, economics, population, pollution, and even politics.
- Azerbaijan-based Unileasing is seeking to acquire Parex Leasing & Factoring, the title subsidiary in Azerbaijan of Latvia's Parex Leasing.
- Sprint's Clearwire Corp. subsidiary is building a network using WiMax technology, which qualifies as 4G under the common industry definition.
- On Jan. 4, 2010, Eco2 announced a deal with CarbonX Trade, which it described as a subsidiary of Lakewood, Colo. -based Green Ventures Future Fund.
- Lender Processing Services, the Jacksonville, Fla., company whose subsidiary is the subject of a federal probe for issues related to the preparation of foreclosure documentation, fought back this week against what it said were "mischaracterizations" by the media.
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