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subordinately

/adjective, noun suh-bawr-dn-it; verb suh-bawr-dn-eyt/US // adjective, noun səˈbɔr dn ɪt; verb səˈbɔr dnˌeɪt //

附属,附属地,属下,隶属

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
    • : of less importance; secondary.
    • : subject to or under the authority of a superior.
    • : subservient or inferior.
    • : subject; dependent.
    • : Grammar. acting as a modifier, as when I finished, which is subordinate to They were glad in They were glad when I finished.noting or pertaining to a subordinating conjunction.
    • : Obsolete. submissive.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a subordinate person or thing.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    sub·or·di·nat·ed, sub·or·di·nat·ing.

    • : to place in a lower order or rank.
    • : to make secondary: to subordinate work to pleasure.
    • : to make subject, subservient, or dependent: to subordinate passion to reason.

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Examples

  • Messonnier has told colleagues that, not being a virologist or laboratory specialist, she relied on subordinates with greater subject-matter expertise.

  • Because my parents had the same kind of job, I never considered one of their careers as subordinate to the other.

  • Pichai quietly withdrew from the board in 2018 and installed a Google subordinate in his place.

  • Distill it down, and Greenlight is a way for parents to move money from one account to a subordinate—a role that several money-transfer services already fulfill with Square’s Cash App and PayPal’s Venmo.

  • Same-sex unions would not have opted into the pattern of marriage, which was a relationship, a dominant and a subordinate relationship.

  • That is where the subordinate gangs like Big Hazard come in.

  • Indeed, the committee is composed of pastors who are subordinate to Driscoll and were not elected by their fellow pastors.

  • Maria Zhang was sued by a female subordinate who claimed she was forced to have sex with her to keep her job.

  • Tech PR firm OpenCommunications was hit with claims that its CEO made unwelcome advances toward a subordinate.

  • The individual, even if royal, was subordinate to a larger group.

  • Bessires was included because he would never win it at any later date, but his doglike devotion made him a priceless subordinate.

  • So far Murat had always held subordinate commands; his great ambition was to become the commander-in-chief of an independent army.

  • In 1800 Massna took his trusty subordinate with him to Italy as lieutenant-general of the centre of the army.

  • An appeal by a member of a subordinate lodge from a vote of expulsion does not abate by his death while the appeal is pending.

  • On the following day he was deprived of his office, and degraded to the rank of subordinate to a new steward.