Insubordination vs. Subordination

Insubordinationnoun

The quality or state of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority; specifically, an employee's failure or refusal to comply with a request or an assignment given by his/her supervisor.

Subordinationnoun

The process of making something subordinate.

Insubordinationnoun

The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority.

Subordinationnoun

The process of subordinating.

Insubordinationnoun

defiance of authority

Subordinationnoun

The property of being subordinate; inferiority of rank or position.

Insubordinationnoun

an insubordinate act

Subordinationnoun

The quality of being properly obedient to a superior (as a superior officer).

Insubordination

Insubordination is the act of willfully disobeying a lawful order of one's superior. It is generally a punishable offense in hierarchical organizations such as the armed forces, which depend on people lower in the chain of command obeying orders.

Subordinationnoun

The act of subordinating, placing in a lower order, or subjecting.

Subordinationnoun

The quality or state of being subordinate or inferior to an other; inferiority of rank or dignity; subjection.

‘Natural creature having a local subordination.’;

Subordinationnoun

Place of inferior rank.

‘Persons who in their several subordinations would be obliged to follow the example of their superiors.’;

Subordinationnoun

the state of being subordinate to something

Subordinationnoun

the semantic relation of being subordinate or belonging to a lower rank or class

Subordinationnoun

the grammatical relation of a modifying word or phrase to its head

Subordinationnoun

the quality of obedient submissiveness

Subordinationnoun

the act of mastering or subordinating someone