Subordinate vs. Subservient — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Subordinate and Subservient
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Subordinate
Lower in rank or position
His subordinate officers
Subservient
Subordinate in capacity or function.
Subordinate
A person under the authority or control of another within an organization
He was mild-mannered, especially with his subordinates
Subservient
Obsequious; servile.
Subordinate
Treat or regard as of lesser importance than something else
Practical considerations were subordinated to political expediency
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Subservient
Useful as a means or an instrument; serving to promote an end.
Subordinate
Belonging to a lower or inferior class or rank; secondary.
Subservient
Useful in an inferior capacity.
Subordinate
Subject to the authority or control of another.
Subservient
Obsequiously submissive.
Subordinate
One that is subordinate.
Subservient
Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling.
Scarce ever reading anything which he did not make subservient in one kind or other.
These ranks of creatures are subservient one to another.
Their temporal ambition was wholly subservient to their proselytizing spirit.
Subordinate
To put in a lower or inferior rank or class.
Subservient
Compliant and obedient to authority;
Editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones
Subordinate
To make subservient; subdue.
Subservient
Abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant;
Slavish devotion to her job ruled her life
A slavish yes-man to the party bosses
She has become submissive and subservient
Subordinate
Placed in a lower class, rank, or position.
Subordinate
Submissive or inferior to, or controlled by authority.
Subordinate
Dependent on and either modifying or complementing the main clause
In the sentence “The barbecue finished before John arrived”, the subordinate clause “before John arrived” specifies the time of the main clause, “The barbecue finished”.
Subordinate
Descending in a regular series.
Subordinate
(countable) One who is subordinate.
Subordinate
(transitive) To make subservient.
Subordinate
(transitive) To treat as of less value or importance.
Subordinate
To make of lower priority in order of payment in bankruptcy.
Subordinate
Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.
The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished.
Subordinate
Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like.
It was subordinate, not enslaved, to the understanding.
Subordinate
One who stands in order or rank below another; - distinguished from a principal.
Subordinate
To place in a lower order or class; to make or consider as of less value or importance; as, to subordinate one creature to another.
Subordinate
To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to subordinate the passions to reason.
Subordinate
An assistant subject to the authority or control of another
Subordinate
A word that is more specific than a given word
Subordinate
Rank or order as less important or consider of less value;
Art is sometimes subordinated to Science in these schools
Subordinate
Make subordinate, dependent, or subservient;
Our wishes have to be subordinated to that of our ruler
Subordinate
Lower in rank or importance
Subordinate
Subject or submissive to authority or the control of another;
A subordinate kingdom
Subordinate
Of a clause; unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence;
A subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or adjective or adverb within a sentence
Subordinate
Inferior in rank or status;
The junior faculty
A lowly corporal
Petty officialdom
A subordinate functionary
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