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comparative more subsidiary, superlative most subsidiary
Auxiliary or supplemental. quotations examples
chief ruler and principal head everywhere, not suffragant and subsidiary
1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays
They constituted a useful subsidiary testimony of another state of existence.
May 1, 1823, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Difference between stories of dreams and ghosts […]
Secondary or subordinate. quotations examples
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.
1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court
Of or relating to a subsidy. quotations examples
George the Second relied on his subsidiary treaties.
1836-1853, Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope, History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles, 1713-1783
plural subsidiaries
A company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company. examples
(music) A subordinate theme. examples
One who aids or supplies; an assistant. examples