subsidiary
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Etymology
From Middle French subsidiaire, from Latin subsidiarius (“belonging to a reserve”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
subsidiary (comparative more subsidiary, superlative most subsidiary)
- Auxiliary or supplemental.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays:
- chief ruler and principal head everywhere, not suffragant and subsidiary
- May 1, 1823, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Difference between stories of dreams and ghosts […]
- They constituted a useful subsidiary testimony of another state of existence.
- Secondary or subordinate.
- a subsidiary stream
- 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court:
- By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
- Of or relating to a subsidy.
- subsidiary payments to an ally
- 1836-1853, Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope, History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles, 1713-1783
- George the Second relied on his subsidiary treaties.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
auxiliary or supplemental
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secondary or subordinate
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of or relating to a subsidy
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Noun
subsidiary (plural subsidiaries)
- A company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company.
- (music) A subordinate theme.
- One who aids or supplies; an assistant.
Translations
company owned by a parent company or a holding company
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music: a subordinate theme
Further reading
subsidiary on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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