A person or officer subordinate to another; an underling. Obsolete.

(the adjective used absol.) A person who is younger than another, or of more recent entrance or lower standing in a class, profession, etc.: see…

A subordinate or deputy minister.

A subordinate official.

A subordinate part of something; a subordinate person.

A minor official. (Probably a misunderstanding.) Obsolete.

A person who is subordinate to another in rank, position, or power; a subordinate official.

A person or (occasionally) thing of inferior rank or status; a subordinate. Now chiefly in critical and cultural theory, esp. post-colonial theory…

(under-, prefix1 affix 3a(a).)

One who is subject or subordinate to another; in later use esp. a subordinate agent or official, an understrapper.