Subject

/ˈsʌb.d͡ʒɛkt/ · adjective

Meaning

Likely to be affected by or to experience something; liable..

Definitions by Sense

1. Likely to be affected by or to experience something; liable.
2. Conditional upon something; used with to.
3. Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
4. Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
5. (grammar) The noun, pronoun or noun phrase about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject is the actor. In clauses in the passive voice the subject is the target of the action.
6. By faulty generalisation from a clause's grammatical subject often being coinstantiated with one: an actor or agent; one who takes action.
7. The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
8. A particular area of study.

Example Sentences

a country subject to extreme heat

Menu listings and prices are subject to change.

He's subject to sneezing fits.

All human things are subject to decay.

The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.

The local board sets local policy, subject to approval from the State Board.

Long he them bore above the subject plain

, Book I Esau was never subject to Jacob.

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Antonyms for subject

Related Words

Word Forms

• more subject
• most subject
• subjects
• subjecting
• subjected

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