Usually means: Lower in rank or position.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word subordinate:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. subordinate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. subordinate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. subordinate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. subordinate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. subordinate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Subordinate, subordinate: Wordnik
  7. subordinate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. subordinate: Wiktionary
  9. subordinate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. subordinate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. subordinate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. subordinate: Dictionary.com
  13. subordinate (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. subordinate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Subordinate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Subordinate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. subordinate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. subordinate: Rhymezone
  19. subordinate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. subordinate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. subordinate: Free Dictionary
  22. subordinate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. subordinate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. subordinate: Legal dictionary
  3. subordinate: Financial dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. subordinate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. subordinate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. subordinate: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. subordinate: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See subordinated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Placed in a lower class, rank, or position.
adjective:  Submissive or inferior to, or controlled by authority.
adjective:  (grammar, of a clause, not comparable) dependent on and either modifying or complementing the main clause
adjective:  Descending in a regular series.
noun:  (countable) One who is subordinate.
noun:  A hyponym.
verb:  (transitive) To make subservient or secondary.
verb:  (transitive, grammar) To embed (a clause) into another clause that is the main one.
verb:  (transitive, finance) To make of lower priority in order of payment in bankruptcy.
verb:  (transitive) To treat (someone) as of less value or importance.

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