Want to use Subordinate correctly in a sentence? These 20 example sentences show the word in context, together with its meaning and synonyms like assistant or secondary.
Subordinate in a sentence
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Subordinate meaning
- Placed in a lower class, rank, or position.
- Submissive or inferior to, or controlled by authority.
- dependent on and either modifying or complementing the main clause
Example sentences (20)
Her subordinate wishes her for her special day; she knows about it, thanks to Prerana’s status update on WhatsApp.
He was then on duty as a subordinate officer in the Division of Far Eastern Affairs (FE) of the Department of State.
At issue are several sentences in a proposed new contract where an elf comes across as a subordinate Claus.
But Congress cannot subject the president to the supervision, control or review of a subordinate officer.
Riigikogu Speaker Lauri Hussar (Eesti 200) said clearly the MPEÕK has a subordinate relationship with the Moscow Patriarchate.
Command and control units will continue giving orders to subordinate units in a complicated environment.
During his time with that department, he kissed a female subordinate and pressured two female colleagues into hot tubs with him.
The draft said that such decisions should first receive unanimous approval at a subordinate committee.
Struggle outside of parliament becomes subordinate to maintaining “our government” inside parliament.
The Lewinsky factor gave Jones evidentiary corroboration of Clinton chumming for sexual favors with female subordinate employees.
We cannot subordinate everything to the UN or Davos or Moscow or Beijing or Washington, or even AI.
How does that feel when you’re the one sitting in a more subordinate position to have them tower over you and demand something of you?
Marcelino defended Mohinder Saran, who was kicked out of the NDP caucus in 2017 over an accusation he sexually harassed a subordinate.
He said they decided not to send the Brigade 5 commander because he was not fluent in Burmese and chose to send a subordinate instead.
Delivering the presidential address, he suggested that the subordinate courts adopt the e-library system in their respective libraries.
Mr. Mueller, who acted as a Justice Department subordinate, had no explicit authority to recommend impeachment, a function of Congress.
The subordinate clauses include "frameworks for investment and cost-sharing", which implies some measurement of the costs of adaptation.
My belief has always been, on that aspect, that the economy is of course vitally important, but the economy is subordinate to the nation.
Heritage Insurance beats Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd Subordinate Voting Shares on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
In the light of the respect for truth becoming subordinate to self-interest, it is difficult to know the difference between right and wrong.
Common combinations with subordinate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- subordinate to 51×
- the subordinate 16×
- his subordinate 11×
- subordinate and 8×
- is subordinate 7×
- and subordinate 7×
- to subordinate 7×
- were subordinate 7×
- subordinate courts 6×
- subordinate position 6×
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