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subordination

[ US /səˌbɔɹdəˈneɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /sˌʌbɔːdɪnˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. the quality of obedient submissiveness
  2. the semantic relation of being subordinate or belonging to a lower rank or class
  3. the grammatical relation of a modifying word or phrase to its head
  4. the act of mastering or subordinating someone
  5. the state of being subordinate to something

How To Use subordination In A Sentence

  • There is some muttering about being 'dragooned', but I do not take insubordination from the lower ranks. Home | Mail Online
  • So long as tutors and governesses only had to deal with their own pupils, all went well, but when the brothers and sisters were all together, and influenced by the spirit of insubordination and love of playing pranks which the elder ones brought back from school, we made life hard and sour to the preceptorial body. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville
  • Most LDCs' affiliation status in international labor division system and its less developed situation in history lead to its subordination and passive status in international monetary system.
  • We shall drum him out of the corps for insubordination.
  • Because of what he calls insubordination in the legal department, Mr. Dudley now uses outside counsel for many legal issues. The Bitter Battle
  • Instead, they are sentenced to a life of subordination: tilling fields, building homes, preparing food, collecting firewood, bearing children, and preparing any item -- from charcoal to litchi fruits for their unfaithful husbands to sell on roadsides -- money that will ultimately end up in the men's empty stomachs in the form of bootleg banana booze. Summer Rayne Oakes: Where the fire burns: Accounts from Mozambique
  • He had never in five years shown the slightest disrespect or insubordination.
  • Simmel in his interesting discussion of the subject points out the fact that the relations of subordination and superordination are reciprocal. Introduction to the Science of Sociology
  • But if democracy is based upon human values, if it sets the state in subordination to the individual, it meets, in those respects, the mind and spirit of the Hindu. India Today
  • the first to crack down on any hint of insubordination amongst the junior officers. CODE BREAKER
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