Subsidiary

/sʌbˈsɪ.di.əɹ.i/ · adjective

Meaning

Auxiliary or supplemental..

Definitions by Sense

1. Auxiliary or supplemental.
2. Secondary or subordinate.
3. Of or relating to a subsidy.
4. A company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company.
5. (music) A subordinate theme.
6. One who aids or supplies; an assistant.

Example Sentences

They constituted a useful subsidiary testimony of another state of existence.

chief ruler and principal head everywhere, not suffragant and subsidiary

a subsidiary stream

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.

subsidiary payments to an ally

George the Second relied on his subsidiary treaties.

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Word Forms

• more subsidiary
• most subsidiary
• subsidiaries

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