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subcompany en · NOUN

Etymology

From sub- + company.

Meanings

1. A company forming part of a larger company.
   • With large credits borrowed in the name of Charlottenhütte he managed to gain control over the Rhein-Elbe Union, another large steel firm which in 1926 consolidated with one of its subcompanies, the old and respected Gelsenkirchen Mining Company, and assumed the latter’s name. 1997, James Pool, Suzanne Pool, chapter 8, in Who Financed Hitler, U.S.A., →ISBN, page 432:

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