subsidiary

1. a. Furnishing aid; assisting; auxiliary; helping; tributary; especially, aiding in an inferior position or capacity; as, a subsidiary stream. Source: opted

2. a. Of or pertaining to a subsidy; constituting a subsidy; being a part of, or of the nature of, a subsidy; as, subsidiary payments to an ally. Source: opted

3. n. One who, or that which, contributes aid or additional supplies; an assistant; an auxiliary. Source: opted

4. adj. functioning in a supporting capacity Source: wordnet

5. n. an assistant subject to the authority or control of another Source: wordnet

6. n. a company that is completely controlled by another company Source: wordnet

7. 1. Furnishing aid; assisting; auxiliary; helping; tributary; especially, aiding in an inferior position or capacity; as, a subsidiary stream. Chief ruler and principal head everywhere, not suffragant and subsidiary. Florio. They constituted a useful subsidiary testimony of another state of existence. Coleridge. 2. Of or pertaining to a subsidy; constituting a subsidy; being a part of, or of the nature of, a subsidy; as, subsidiary payments to an ally. George the Second relied on his subsidiary treaties. Ld. Mahon. One who, or that which, contributes aid or additional supplies; an assistant; an auxiliary. Hammond. Source: webster

8. One who, or that which, contributes aid or additional supplies;an assistant; an auxiliary. Hammond. Source: adambom

9. j:15/n:85 n an assistant subject to the authority or control of another n a company that is completely controlled by another company s functioning in a supporting capacity Source: ecdict

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