subordinate
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
subordinate
▶adjective /səˈbɔːdɪnət/ lower in rank or position.
■ of less or secondary importance.
▶noun /səˈbɔːdɪnət/ a person under the authority or control of another. ▶verb /səˈbɔːdɪneɪt/ treat or regard as subordinate.■ make subservient or dependent.
– derivatives
subordinately adverb,
subordination noun,
subordinative adjective.
subordinately adverb,
subordination noun,
subordinative adjective.
– origin ME: from med. L. subordinatus ‘placed in an inferior rank’, from L. sub- ‘below’ + ordinare ‘ordain’.
'subordinate' also found in these Oxford entries:
annex
- appendant
- associate
- back-end
- by-
- collateral
- complex sentence
- demiurge
- dependent
- fiddle
- genus
- Impressionism
- mate
- mezzanine
- myrmidon
- perquisite
- relative
- reported speech
- satrap
- second
- sequence of tenses
- sous-
- statutory instrument
- stooge
- subcategory
- subclass
- subclause
- subdivision
- subordinate clause
- subplot
- subservient
- substation
- subtitle
- subtype
- superordinate
- tetrarch
- that
- under-
- underling
- undermanager
- vassal
