Thesaurus: subordinate

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1. a. class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/placed">Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.
2. a. Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like.
3. n. One who stands in order or rank below another; -- distinguished from a principal.
4. v. t. To place in a lower order or class; to make or class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/consider">consider as of less value or importance; as, to subordinate one creature to another.
5. v. t. To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to subordinate the passions to reason.
6. adj. lower in rank or importance
7. adj. subject or submissive to authority or the control of another
8. adj. (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence
9. n. an assistant subject to the authority or control of another
10. n. a word that is more word/specific">specific than a given word
11. v. rank or order as less important or consider of less value
12. v. make subordinate, dependent, or subservient