subordination
从属关系,从属地位,从属,从属于
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- : the act of placing in a lower rank or position: The refusal to allow women to be educated was part of society's subordination of women to men.
- : the act subordinating, or of making dependent, secondary, or subservient.
- : the condition of being subordinated, or made dependent, secondary, or subservient.
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It’s associated with subordination to authority, and people don’t like that.
“This is a classic form of subordination that is characteristic of employment relationships,” it added.
As Thomas notes, many Americans’ increasing commitment to racial subordination and slavery loomed large in the background of the cases.
Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.
It is a relationship of dominance and subordination that makes further conflict inevitable.
They had adopted increasingly formalized rules of racial subordination in public places.
For most of history, the subordination of wives to husbands was enforced by law and custom.
If there is any such relationship, the British people have seen no reward from it—only subordination and sacrifice.
The degree of subordination differed from the mild form of tribute-paying to that of personal slavery.
In all these charters care was taken that the new corporations should be in due subordination to the town authorities.
Our collective effort tends to break for ever this bond of subordination.
They shared in every privilege belonging to her native sons, and but slightly felt the inconveniences of subordination.
It is extraordinary with what subordination they act when they are turned out to do military duty.