About The Word Subsidiary
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Subsidiary
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What's The Definition Of Subsidiary?
[n] a company that is completely controlled by another company
[n] someone subject to the authority or control of another [adj] functioning in a subsidiary or supporting capacity; "the main library and its auxiliary branches" [adj] relating to something that is added but is not essential; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxilliary to each other" Synonyms | Synonyms for Subsidiary: accessory | adjunct | adjuvant | ancillary | appurtenant | auxiliary | secondary | subordinate | subsidiary company | supplemental | supplementary | supportive | underling Related Terms | Find terms related to Subsidiary: See Also | company | follower | man Subsidiary In Webster's Dictionary \Sub*sid"i*a*ry\, a. [L. subsidiarius: cf. F.
subsidiaire. See {Subsidy}.]
1. Furnishing aid; assisting; auxiliary; helping; tributary;
especially, aiding in an inferior position or capacity;
as, a subsidiary stream.
Chief 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 ally.
George the Second relied on his subsidiary treaties.
--Ld. Mahon.
\Sub*sid"i*a*ry\, n.; pl. {Subsidiaries}. One who, or that which, contributes aid or additional supplies; an assistant; an auxiliary. --Hammond. |
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