Subbrand vs. Subsidiary

Subbrandnoun

A subsidiary brand.

Subsidiaryadjective

Auxiliary or supplemental.

Subbrandverb

(transitive) To market under a subsidiary brand.

Subsidiaryadjective

Secondary or subordinate.

‘a subsidiary stream’;

Subsidiaryadjective

Of, or relating to a subsidy.

‘subsidiary payments to an ally’;

Subsidiarynoun

A company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company.

Subsidiarynoun

(music) A subordinate theme.

Subsidiarynoun

One who aids or supplies; an assistant.

Subsidiaryadjective

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.’; ‘They constituted a useful subsidiary testimony of another state of existence.’;

Subsidiaryadjective

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.’;

Subsidiarynoun

One who, or that which, contributes aid or additional supplies; an assistant; an auxiliary.

Subsidiarynoun

an assistant subject to the authority or control of another

Subsidiarynoun

a company that is completely controlled by another company

Subsidiaryadjective

relating to something that is added but is not essential;

‘an ancillary pump’; ‘an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism’; ‘The mind and emotions are auxilliary to each other’;

Subsidiaryadjective

functioning in a subsidiary or supporting capacity;

‘the main library and its auxiliary branches’;

Subsidiary

A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company is a company owned or controlled by another company, which is called the parent company or holding company. Two subsidiaries that belong to the same parent company are called sister companies.