subcompany

English

Alternative forms

• sub-company

Etymology

From sub- +‎ company.

Noun

subcompany (plural subcompanies)

1. A company forming part of a larger company. [19th c.]
   • 1997, James Pool, Suzanne Pool, chapter 8, in Who Financed Hitler‎, U.S.A., →ISBN, page 432:

     With large credits borrowed in the name of Charlottenhütte he managed to gain control over the Rhein-Elbe Union, another large steel firm which in 1926 consolidated with one of its subcompanies, the old and respected Gelsenkirchen Mining Company, and assumed the latter’s name.