subsidiary
NOUN · English
Experimental / limited support
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The corpus records 3 senses of subsidiary. Each sense below has its own Add to list, so you choose the one you mean.
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Experimental coverage — measured below Partial on the number of recorded words, definitions, translations, word forms and pronunciation. Treat entries as evidence to check; meanings may be incomplete.
English is Experimental in Words. Support is measured, not declared: a language reaches Partial only when every measure meets its threshold, and a measure that has not been taken does not count. The development corpus holds 60 source-backed words in English. What is shown may be incomplete, and pronunciation audio, generated forms and generated examples are not offered.
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Definition: A company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company. From a source of medium confidence.
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Definition: A subordinate theme. From a source of medium confidence.
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Definition: One who aids or supplies; an assistant. From a source of medium confidence.
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Etymology: From Middle French subsidiaire, from Latin subsidiarius (“belonging to a reserve”). From a source of medium confidence.
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