Definition of Subordinate

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Subordinate

Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.

Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like.

One who stands in order or rank below another; -- distinguished from a principal.

To place in a lower order or class; to make or consider as of less value or importance; as, to subordinate one creature to another.

To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to subordinate the passions to reason.

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Subordinate Quotations

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
Winston Churchill

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.
Simone de Beauvoir

If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers.
Julius Erving

I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.
John Abizaid

Laws are subordinate to custom.
Titus Maccius Plautus

Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks.
Samuel P. Huntington

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.
Stephen Gardiner

The President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts; hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed.
Townsend Harris

For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character.
Ferdinand Mount

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.
James L. Buckley

Subordinate Translations

subordinate in Dutch is achterstellen
subordinate in French is sous ordre
subordinate in German is unterordnen, untergeordnet
subordinate in Latin is summitto
subordinate in Portuguese is subordinado
subordinate in Swedish is underordna

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