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Webster 1913 Edition
Subsidiary
1.
Furnishing aid; assisting; auxiliary; helping; tributary; especially, aiding in an inferior position or capacity;
as, a
. subsidiary
streamChief ruler and principal head everywhere, not suffragant and
subsidiary
. Florio.
They constituted a useful
subsidiary
testimony of another state of existence. Coleridge.
2.
Of or pertaining to a subsidy; constituting a subsidy; being a part of, or of the nature of, a subsidy;
as,
. subsidiary
payments to an allyGeorge the Second relied on his
subsidiary
treaties. Ld. Mahon.
Sub-sid′i-a-ry
,Noun.
pl.
Subsidiaries
. One who, or that which, contributes aid or additional supplies; an assistant; an auxiliary.
Hammond.
Webster 1828 Edition
Subsidiary
SUBSID'IARY
,Adj.
1.
Aiding; assistant; furnishing help. Subsidiary troops are troops of one nation hired by another for military service.2.
Furnishing additional supplies; as a subsidiary stream.SUBSID'IARY
,Noun.
Definition 2024
subsidiary
subsidiary
English
Adjective
subsidiary (comparative more subsidiary, superlative most subsidiary)
- Auxiliary or supplemental.
- John Florio (1553-1625)
- chief ruler and principal head everywhere, not suffragant and subsidiary
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
- They constituted a useful subsidiary testimony of another state of existence.
- John Florio (1553-1625)
- 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
- Lord Mahon (1805-1875)
- George the Second relied on his subsidiary treaties.
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.
Translations
company owned by a parent company or a holding company
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music: a subordinate theme