'subordinate' in a sentence
Learn how to use 'subordinate' with 4 example sentences.
- subordinate adjective
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: lower in rank or importance
: subject or submissive to authority or the control of another
: (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence
- subordinate noun
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: an assistant subject to the authority or control of another
: a word that is more specific than a given word
- subordinate verb
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: rank or order as less important or consider of less value
: make subordinate, dependent, or subservient
He takes it out on his subordinates.
Senior executives spend a lot of time training their subordinates.
I was stabbed in the back by my subordinate.
According to some experts the spoken language uses few subordinate clauses.