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'subordinate' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'subordinate' with 4 example sentences.


subordinate adjective

: 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

: an assistant subject to the authority or control of another

: a word that is more specific than a given word

subordinate verb

: 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.
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