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

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