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subordination en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /səˌboːdɪˈnæɪʃn̩/ (Australia)
  • /səˌbɔɹdəˈneɪʃn̩/ (Canada, General-American)
  • /səˌboːdəˈnæɪʃn̩/ (New-Zealand)
  • (Midwestern-US) audio
  • /səˌbɔːdɪˈneɪʃn̩/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle French subordination, from Medieval Latin subordinatio.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The process of making or classing (something or somebody) as subordinate.
    • Sound logic, as the habitual subordination of the individual to the species, and of the species to the genus […] 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, New York: Leavitt, Lord & Co., published 1834:
  2. (countable, uncountable) The property of being subordinate; inferiority of rank or position.
  3. (countable, uncountable) The quality of being properly obedient to a superior (as a superior officer); this quality as a systemic principle of discipline within a hierarchical organization.

Forms

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subordinations Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

subordinationism · nonsubordination · antisubordination · subordinational · subordinationist

Relateds

hierarchy

Translations (32)

fi alaisuus (property of being subordinate) · be паднача́ленне (process of making or classing as subordinate) · ru подчине́ние (process of making or classing as subordinate) · hu függőség (property of being subordinate) · hu alá-fölé rendeltség (property of being subordinate) · pl subordynacja (quality of being properly obedient to a superior; this quality as a systemic principle of discipline) · be падпара́дкаванне (property of being subordinate) · uk підпорядкува́ння (property of being subordinate) · uk підпорядко́вування (process of making or classing as subordinate) · be паднача́ленне (property of being subordinate) · hu alárendeltség (property of being subordinate) · hu fegyelem (quality of being properly obedient to a superior; this quality as a systemic principle of discipline) · ru подчинённость (property of being subordinate) · hu engedelmesség (quality of being properly obedient to a superior; this quality as a systemic principle of discipline) · uk субордина́ція (quality of being properly obedient to a superior; this quality as a systemic principle of discipline) · be падпара́дкаванасць (property of being subordinate) · bg подчинение (property of being subordinate) · pl podporządkowywanie (process of making or classing as subordinate) · hu alárendelés (process of making or classing as subordinate) · nl ondergeschikt (property of being subordinate) · fi tottelevaisuus (quality of being properly obedient to a superior; this quality as a systemic principle of discipline) · uk підпорядкува́ння (process of making or classing as subordinate) · hu függés (property of being subordinate) · be субардына́цыя (quality of being properly obedient to a superior; this quality as a systemic principle of discipline) · ru подчине́ние (property of being subordinate) · be паднача́ленасць (property of being subordinate) · ru субордина́ция (quality of being properly obedient to a superior; this quality as a systemic principle of discipline) · fi alistaminen (process of making or classing as subordinate) · fi alisteisuus (property of being subordinate) · pl podporządkowanie (process of making or classing as subordinate) · be падпара́дкаванне (process of making or classing as subordinate) · uk підпорядко́ваність (property of being subordinate)