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subordonnée — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • subordinate adj Lower in rank, importance, or position; under the authority of someone else.

Senses

subordonnée is used for these senses in English:

  • subordinate (countable) One who is subordinate.
  • subordinate clause (grammar) A clause that cannot stand alone as a sentence but rather functions as either a noun, adjective, or adverb within a sentence, having been cued by any of various introductory words that subordinate it (complementize it).

subordinate — full definition

  1. adj Lower in rank, importance, or position; under the authority of someone else.
  2. noun A person who works under someone else's authority.
  3. verb To treat something as less important than something else, or to place it under another's control.

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