Associations to the word «Subordination»

Wiktionary

SUBORDINATION, noun. The process of making something subordinate.
SUBORDINATION, noun. The property of being subordinate.
SUBORDINATION, noun. The quality of being properly obedient to a superior (as a superior officer).

Dictionary definition

SUBORDINATION, noun. The state of being subordinate to something.
SUBORDINATION, noun. The semantic relation of being subordinate or belonging to a lower rank or class.
SUBORDINATION, noun. The grammatical relation of a modifying word or phrase to its head.
SUBORDINATION, noun. The quality of obedient submissiveness.
SUBORDINATION, noun. The act of mastering or subordinating someone.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope