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Subsidiary   /səbsˈɪdiˌɛri/   Listen
Subsidiary

noun
(pl. subsidiaries)
1.
An assistant subject to the authority or control of another.  Synonyms: foot soldier, subordinate, underling.
2.
A company that is completely controlled by another company.  Synonym: subsidiary company.
adjective
1.
Functioning in a supporting capacity.  Synonyms: auxiliary, supplemental, supplementary.



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"Subsidiary" Quotes from Famous Books



... public life. He was not what is called a manly man: he did not drink or smoke or arrogate importance. But he was her man, and his very indifference to all claims of manliness set her supreme in her own world with him. Physically, she loved him and he satisfied her. He went alone and subsidiary always. At first it had irritated her, the outer world existed so little to him. Looking at him with outside eyes, she was inclined to sneer at him. But her sneer changed to a sort of respect. She respected him, that he could ...
— The Rainbow • D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

... the digestive functions during metamorphosis is scarcely less extraordinary; frogs, for example, which feed on animal substances at maturity, subsist entirely upon vegetable when in the condition of larvae, and the subsidiary organs undergo remarkable development, the intestinal canal in the earlier stage being five times its length in ...
— Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon • J. Emerson Tennent

... repeated in the Universe, which consists of a corporeal world embraced and interpenetrated by a spiritual world. The former consists of the earth, as its principal and central constituent, with the subsidiary sun, planets, and stars. Above the earth is the air, and below is the watery abyss. Whether the heaven, which is conceived to be above the air, and the hell in, or below, the subterranean deeps, are to be taken as corporeal or incorporeal is not clear. However this may be, the heaven and ...
— Collected Essays, Volume V - Science and Christian Tradition: Essays • T. H. Huxley

... coitus.[120] Such cases are rare; but, as a mere idea, the thought of strangling a woman appears to be not infrequently associated with sexual emotion. We must probably regard it as, in the main,—with whatever subsidiary elements,—an aspect of that physical seizure, domination, and forcible embrace of the female which is one of the primitive ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... imperfect attainment of both. During the earlier stages of education the main interest must be in the construction for its own sake of the language system or the number system, and while the real interest may be introduced it must always be kept subsidiary to the main interest—must first of all be taught for its own sake, and the instrumental art only used for its furtherance in so far as the acquirement of the former is not obstructed. E.g., the placing of geography and history Readers in the hands of the child while he is still struggling ...
— The Children: Some Educational Problems • Alexander Darroch


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