Associations to the word «Subsidiarity»

Wiktionary

SUBSIDIARITY, noun. The principle that government power ought to reside at the lowest feasible level (i.e. at the local or regional level, instead of the national or supranational level, unless the latter presents clear advantages)

Dictionary definition

SUBSIDIARITY, noun. Secondary importance.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne