Examples of “subsidiary” in a Sentence

noun A company that is owned or controlled by a larger parent company.

• The bank's subsidiary in Spain handles all the European customers.
• Our firm became a subsidiary after the larger company bought it.
• The airline is a subsidiary of a major travel conglomerate.

adj Serving a supporting or secondary role.

• Cooking was only a subsidiary interest; his main hobby was painting.
• The subsidiary road links the village to the main highway.
• The report focuses on the main issue and treats the rest as subsidiary points.