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subordinate
4 ENTRIES FOUND:
Learner's definition of SUBORDINATE
1
: in a position of less power or authority than someone else下级的；从属的 — often + to
- a subordinate officer/commander下级官员/指挥官
- The priests are subordinate to the bishops.牧师服从于主教。
2
: less important than someone or something else次要的 — often + to
- a subordinate concern次要的担忧
- In some cultures, the welfare of the individual is subordinate to the welfare of the group.在一些文化中，与集体幸福相比个人幸福是次要的。
2 subordinate /səˈboɚdənət/ noun
plural subordinates
2 subordinate
/səˈboɚdənət/
noun
plural subordinates
Learner's definition of SUBORDINATE
[count]
: someone who has less power or authority than someone else : someone who is subordinate to someone else下级；下属；部下
- She leaves the day-to-day running of the firm to her subordinates.她把公司的日常管理工作交给下属。
subordinates; subordinated; subordinating
subordinates; subordinated; subordinating
Learner's definition of SUBORDINATE
[+ object] formal
: to think of or treat (someone or something) as less important than someone or something else使居下位；使从属于；使成为次要 — usually + to
- The company is guilty of subordinating safety to profit.公司犯了置安全于利润之下的过错。
- His personal life has been subordinated to his career.他把个人生活置于事业之下。
sub·or·di·nate sə-ˈbȯr-də-nət 
-ˈbȯrd-nət
subordinately adverb
subordinateness noun
sub·or·di·nate sə-ˈbȯr-də-nət
-ˈbȯrd-nət
: one who stands in order or rank below another : one that is subordinate
Synonyms
Example Sentences
Adjective About two-thirds of the way through, this nonsense comes to life for fifteen minutes when the point of view shifts to that of a subordinate character, an aging thug (well played by Laurence Fishburne) who is employed by the casino to spot card counters. 
Richard Alleva, Commonweal, May 9, 2008 A reporter's right to protect a source is a subordinate matter that obfuscates the more important issue of violating journalistic integrity and responsibility when one becomes an agent, if not a pawn, of a mean-spirited and vindictive retaliation scheme. Jon Duffey, Editor & Publisher, 13 Oct. 2003 She was thirty-three, furiously frustrated with her subordinate role in the studio—attending to the model's hair, makeup, and clothes—and chronically dissatisfied with her own pictures, which represented a different kind of woman's work. Judith Thurman, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2003 his contention is that environment plays a subordinate role to heredity in determining what we become Noun Case in point: the dismissal of advertising chief Julie Roehm, accused of having an affair with a subordinate (also fired) and taking freebies from an advertising agency (also fired) in violation of company policies. Bill Saporito, Time, 12 Nov. 2007 He ran an extremely unhappy headquarters. He tended to berate subordinates, frequently shouting and cursing at them. Thomas E. Ricks, Fiasco, 2006 She also found it impossible to give negative feedback. As a consequence, her work and that of her subordinates started to suffer, and she was missing deadlines. Steven Berglas, Harvard Business Review, June 2002 She leaves the day-to-day running of the firm to her subordinates. subordinates do most of the actual creation of the famous designer's clothing designs Verb Clinton administration Trade Representative Mickey Kantor declared: "The days when we could afford to subordinate our economic interests to foreign policy or defense concerns are long past." Lawrence F. Kaplan, New Republic, 18 Mar. 2002 The real reason, though, is that art survives life, and this unpalatable realization lies behind the lumpen desire to subordinate the former to the latter. The finite always mistakes the permanent for the infinite and nurtures designs upon it. Joseph Brodsky, Times Literary Supplement, 26 Oct. 1990 it is one of the lessons of history that more powerful civilizations often subordinate weaker ones See More
Richard Alleva, Commonweal, May 9, 2008 A reporter's right to protect a source is a subordinate matter that obfuscates the more important issue of violating journalistic integrity and responsibility when one becomes an agent, if not a pawn, of a mean-spirited and vindictive retaliation scheme. Jon Duffey, Editor & Publisher, 13 Oct. 2003 She was thirty-three, furiously frustrated with her subordinate role in the studio—attending to the model's hair, makeup, and clothes—and chronically dissatisfied with her own pictures, which represented a different kind of woman's work. Judith Thurman, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2003 his contention is that environment plays a subordinate role to heredity in determining what we become Noun Case in point: the dismissal of advertising chief Julie Roehm, accused of having an affair with a subordinate (also fired) and taking freebies from an advertising agency (also fired) in violation of company policies. Bill Saporito, Time, 12 Nov. 2007 He ran an extremely unhappy headquarters. He tended to berate subordinates, frequently shouting and cursing at them. Thomas E. Ricks, Fiasco, 2006 She also found it impossible to give negative feedback. As a consequence, her work and that of her subordinates started to suffer, and she was missing deadlines. Steven Berglas, Harvard Business Review, June 2002 She leaves the day-to-day running of the firm to her subordinates. subordinates do most of the actual creation of the famous designer's clothing designs Verb Clinton administration Trade Representative Mickey Kantor declared: "The days when we could afford to subordinate our economic interests to foreign policy or defense concerns are long past." Lawrence F. Kaplan, New Republic, 18 Mar. 2002 The real reason, though, is that art survives life, and this unpalatable realization lies behind the lumpen desire to subordinate the former to the latter. The finite always mistakes the permanent for the infinite and nurtures designs upon it. Joseph Brodsky, Times Literary Supplement, 26 Oct. 1990 it is one of the lessons of history that more powerful civilizations often subordinate weaker ones See More Recent Examples on the Web Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2022 But serving him up to a lynch mob—and treating his subordinate as collateral damage—without a hearing, to save an old boys club of privilege, reeks of paternalism and corruption. Mary Anastasia O’grady, WSJ, 8 May 2022 California law nonetheless gives employers a relatively free hand when romantically linked co-workers are supervisor and subordinate. Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2022 Among western lowland gorillas, Cooke writes, females will sometimes harass silverback males and interrupt their copulations with subordinate females. Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 6 May 2022 Under the terms of the agreement, Shopify will acquire all of Deliverr’s shares outstanding, with 80% of the $2.1 billion in cash and the remainder through the issue of Shopify Class A subordinate voting shares. Adriano Marchese, WSJ, 5 May 2022 But blowing up a command post can confuse the subordinate units, temporarily leaving them vulnerable to a swift attack. David Axe, Forbes, 23 Apr. 2022 And even when Brown and Black characters do appear in period pieces, they’re often shown in subordinate roles to the starring white characters. Samantha Powell, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Apr. 2022 Roddy said the Caisson Platoon is his costliest subordinate unit. Drew F. Lawrence And Katie Bo Lillis, CNN, 7 Apr. 2022 Fox News, 13 Sep. 2022 About an hour later, Essazay responded with the names of his two brothers and his parents and their address in downtown Kabul, and Parker forwarded the info to a subordinate of Cloutier’s. Michael Venutolo-mantovani, WIRED, 30 Aug. 2022 Even Sewing explicitly expressed personal support for his outgoing subordinate and referred to him by his first name, an informality that typically must be extended in Germany’s rigid and conservative business culture. Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 1 June 2022 The spokesman pointed me to bank regulations that prohibit Mr. Claver-Carone and his subordinate from discussing the matter publicly. Mary Anastasia O’grady, WSJ, 8 May 2022 A month and a half after his Russian President stole The Sum of All Fears, Hinds pops up here as a Rooney subordinate whose grief turns to rage at his brother's wake. Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 12 July 2022 The trial was an unusual example of a manager’s testifying against a subordinate. Matthew Goldstein, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2022 The subordinate was demoted to a filing deputy, the suit said. Fox News, 9 Mar. 2022 This February, two months before the merger closed, CNN boss Jeff Zucker—a close friend of Zaslav’s—abruptly resigned over an undisclosed romantic relationship with a subordinate. Scott Decarlo, Fortune, 27 May 2022 Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 3 May 2022 The desire to punish belligerence—and to subordinate other geopolitical goals to that cause—is once again in the air. Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2022 In many places, children expect to support their elderly parents and will subordinate their interests to that aim. New York Times, 22 Feb. 2022 Implicitly, the message was that America gauges the value of that sacred alliance in terms of European willingness to form a common front against China, and to subordinate their interests to American interests in that contest. Noah Millman, The Week, 14 June 2021 Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld tried to subordinate CIA officers to U.S. military command. CBS News, 22 Sep. 2021 Feminists can be depicted as jealous man haters who want to subordinate men. Joy Burnford, Forbes, 26 May 2021 In searching for the next artistic director, the board needs to subordinate MBA logic. Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2021 More important, this coalition would likely pass a law—which most rightists want, in any case—that would subordinate the Supreme Court’s right to review the constitutionality of laws to a simple majority vote in the Knesset. Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2021 See More
Adjective
Filmmakers such as Preminger and Howard Hawks had been hitherto considered nearly anonymous craftspeople, whose identities were subordinate to those of their onscreen stars. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2022 But serving him up to a lynch mob—and treating his subordinate as collateral damage—without a hearing, to save an old boys club of privilege, reeks of paternalism and corruption. Mary Anastasia O’grady, WSJ, 8 May 2022 California law nonetheless gives employers a relatively free hand when romantically linked co-workers are supervisor and subordinate. Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2022 Among western lowland gorillas, Cooke writes, females will sometimes harass silverback males and interrupt their copulations with subordinate females. Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 6 May 2022 Under the terms of the agreement, Shopify will acquire all of Deliverr’s shares outstanding, with 80% of the $2.1 billion in cash and the remainder through the issue of Shopify Class A subordinate voting shares. Adriano Marchese, WSJ, 5 May 2022 But blowing up a command post can confuse the subordinate units, temporarily leaving them vulnerable to a swift attack. David Axe, Forbes, 23 Apr. 2022 And even when Brown and Black characters do appear in period pieces, they’re often shown in subordinate roles to the starring white characters. Samantha Powell, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Apr. 2022 Roddy said the Caisson Platoon is his costliest subordinate unit. Drew F. Lawrence And Katie Bo Lillis, CNN, 7 Apr. 2022 Noun
The Las Vegas-Review journalist had written a series of unflattering stories about Telles creating a hostile work environment and having an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate. Fox News, 13 Sep. 2022 About an hour later, Essazay responded with the names of his two brothers and his parents and their address in downtown Kabul, and Parker forwarded the info to a subordinate of Cloutier’s. Michael Venutolo-mantovani, WIRED, 30 Aug. 2022 Even Sewing explicitly expressed personal support for his outgoing subordinate and referred to him by his first name, an informality that typically must be extended in Germany’s rigid and conservative business culture. Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 1 June 2022 The spokesman pointed me to bank regulations that prohibit Mr. Claver-Carone and his subordinate from discussing the matter publicly. Mary Anastasia O’grady, WSJ, 8 May 2022 A month and a half after his Russian President stole The Sum of All Fears, Hinds pops up here as a Rooney subordinate whose grief turns to rage at his brother's wake. Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 12 July 2022 The trial was an unusual example of a manager’s testifying against a subordinate. Matthew Goldstein, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2022 The subordinate was demoted to a filing deputy, the suit said. Fox News, 9 Mar. 2022 This February, two months before the merger closed, CNN boss Jeff Zucker—a close friend of Zaslav’s—abruptly resigned over an undisclosed romantic relationship with a subordinate. Scott Decarlo, Fortune, 27 May 2022 Verb
Unlike consequences, which for all practical purposes are applied in one direction (boss to team member), ownership can be reinforced in a 360-degree process (peer to peer, team member to boss, and boss to subordinate). Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 3 May 2022 The desire to punish belligerence—and to subordinate other geopolitical goals to that cause—is once again in the air. Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2022 In many places, children expect to support their elderly parents and will subordinate their interests to that aim. New York Times, 22 Feb. 2022 Implicitly, the message was that America gauges the value of that sacred alliance in terms of European willingness to form a common front against China, and to subordinate their interests to American interests in that contest. Noah Millman, The Week, 14 June 2021 Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld tried to subordinate CIA officers to U.S. military command. CBS News, 22 Sep. 2021 Feminists can be depicted as jealous man haters who want to subordinate men. Joy Burnford, Forbes, 26 May 2021 In searching for the next artistic director, the board needs to subordinate MBA logic. Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2021 More important, this coalition would likely pass a law—which most rightists want, in any case—that would subordinate the Supreme Court’s right to review the constitutionality of laws to a simple majority vote in the Knesset. Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2021 See More Word History
Etymology
Adjective and Noun
Middle English subordinat, from Medieval Latin subordinatus, past participle of subordinare to subordinate, from Latin sub- + ordinare to order — more at ordain
Verb
Medieval Latin subordinatus — see subordinate entry 1
First Known Use
Adjective
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Noun
1640, in the meaning defined above
Verb
1597, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Time Traveler
The first known use of subordinate was in the 15th century Phrases Containing subordinate
verb
adjective
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