单词	subordinate
释义	subordinate1 adjectivesubordinate2 nounsubordinate3 verb subordinatesub‧or‧di‧nate1 /səˈbɔːdənət $ -ˈbɔːr-/ ●○○ AWL adjective Word Origin WORD ORIGINsubordinate1 Origin: 1400-1500 Medieval Latin past participle of subordinare ‘to subordinate’, from Latin ordinare; ➔ ORDAIN Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Women had a subordinate status in our society. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Admiral Ugaki promptly instructed subordinate staff officers to make a detailed study of the practicability of his plan. For a start, it is a subordinate class, and being a socialist means surrendering a culture of subordination for self-determination. In the 1940s the official press had stated that economic goals would be subordinate to political objectives. Thus the capitalist mode articulates with the peasant mode, with the latter playing a subordinate role and the former benefiting. When he is subordinate to both of them then a partnership with either animal may be established as an aid to intervention. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► class · The other was the sense of injustice experienced by the subordinate classes at seeing the scheme dropped.· Large sections of the population, the subordinate classes specifically, were desperately in need of improved health care.· For a start, it is a subordinate class, and being a socialist means surrendering a culture of subordination for self-determination.· Clientelistic parties that help channel the demands of the subordinate classes are seen as less threatening to elites.· Economic development was also creating massive changes in the subordinate classes.· The effectiveness of such a legal system depends upon its ability to express the rights, powers and interests of subordinate classes.· The new industrial social order required new techniques of power and new institutions to control the subordinate classes.· The politics of development How do dominant and subordinate classes deal with the problems of development within the global system? ► clause · Judgments frequently consist of long paragraphs and convoluted sentences replete with subordinate clauses.· Frye wrote the words independent clause and subordinate clause on the board.· This seems likely, to judge from the profusion and confusion of qualifications and subordinate clauses.· However, when a subordinate clause follows a main clause this additional processing load does not occur. ► group · There has, therefore, been little chance in the past for a political growth of class consciousness among subordinate groups.· Elite convergence progresses until the subordinate group of elites learns to beat the dominant group through the electoral process.· For members of socially subordinate groups, subordination remains salient even though superordinates are not immediately present.· Indeed, it is just the space between these contradictions that subordinate groups fill with their demands for legal change. ► legislation · I do not like complex subordinate legislation.· Hence back-benchers may intervene to prevent subordinate legislation.· It comprises acts of Parliament and subordinate legislation made under the authority of the parent act.· Statutory power to make subordinate legislation was delegated to Permanent Secretaries.· Government ministers, local authorities and other public bodies have been given the power by statute to make subordinate legislation. ► position · Truman had to learn through experience in office without a period of gradually accumulating knowledge in a subordinate position.· There is a certain boldness about her; she strikes me as refusing to be put in any subordinate position.· Bargaining politics implies a clear role for politicians which may suggest that officials will occupy subordinate positions.· Mackenzie assumed direct control, with his partners in subordinate positions.· In fact they follow the logic feminists identify as sexist because it assumes women's subordinate position.· Thus, as far as the scientific community is concerned, the alternative movement is kept frozen in its subordinate position.· To be a recipient is normally to put oneself in a subordinate position.· Women hold only subordinate positions in the military forces. ► role · In the world of the infant and parent, the referential function of language often takes a subordinate role to others.· Even the glory of the Annunciation can not obscure the almost wholly subordinate role played by women in the New Testament.· Servants are sometimes actually protagonists, and even in subordinate roles they are represented as men and even brothers.· Thus the capitalist mode articulates with the peasant mode, with the latter playing a subordinate role and the former benefiting.· The standards will also be relevant to occupations where training takes a subordinate role, for example line managers and supervisors.· Without East Anglian acceptance of a subordinate role, Offa's Anglian empire would be of short duration.· Women's subjectivity has a subordinate role in those accounts. Word family WORD FAMILYnounsubordinationsubordinateadjectivesubordinate 1in a less important position than someone else:  a subordinate officersubordinate to Women were subordinate to men.2less important than something else SYN  secondarysubordinate to These aims were subordinate to the main aims of the mission. subordinate1 adjectivesubordinate2 nounsubordinate3 verb subordinatesubordinate2 ●○○ AWL noun [countable] Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Costello will have five direct subordinates. The idea of being evaluated by subordinates makes some managers uneasy. The prospect of being judged by subordinates made some managers very uneasy. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS But other senior managers had to convince their colleagues and subordinates of the value of this approach. By conferring with his subordinates before making any decision, the manager will take account of their advice and feelings. If something has gone badly, one of his subordinates will be criticized in an editorial. If the subordinate has to be so elaborately controlled the supervisor might just as well undertake the task. In other words, if a manager has five subordinates, the span of control is five. Indeed, Nagumo, passive though he was, did not always leave everything to his subordinates. Like the subordinates, most superiors felt the managers' interface responsibilities were crucial. The focus of change is directed toward improving the way superiors use power to manage subordinates. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorsomeone who is in a lower position than someone else► junior a junior doctor, officer etc does not have as much power or responsibility as other doctors, officers etc, especially because he or she has not been in the job for very long: · She started work as a junior reporter on a local newspaper.· The most junior officers wore a red stripe on their sleeves. ► assistant : assistant manager/editor/principal etc someone whose job is just below the position of a manager, editor etc: · My mother is assistant principal at a school in Washington, D.C.· Noll, an assistant coach with the Colts, was hired by the Steelers as head coach. ► subordinate someone who has a lower position and less authority than someone else in an organization: · Costello will have five direct subordinates.· The idea of being evaluated by subordinates makes some managers uneasy. ► under if people are under someone in authority, they work for that person and have a lower position: · She has at least 40 people under her at Shell.· Several of the employees under him complained of his bullying behavior. ► report to to have someone as your manager: · McKellon will report to Alan Selles, the company's chairman.· Alan has five members of the production team reporting to him. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB► manage · The focus of change is directed toward improving the way superiors use power to manage subordinates.· In fact, the managers most often discovered new sides of themselves in managing conflicts with subordinates.· They had assumed they could use themselves as models in under-standing how to manage their subordinates.· Empathy was crucial for managing diversity among subordinates.· In these chapters we address the challenges of managing subordinates, but not those of managing peers or superiors. Word family WORD FAMILYnounsubordinationsubordinateadjectivesubordinate someone who has a lower position and less authority than someone else in an organization subordinate1 adjectivesubordinate2 nounsubordinate3 verb subordinatesub‧or‧di‧nate3 /səˈbɔːdəneɪt $ -ˈbɔːr-/ AWL verb [transitive] Verb Table VERB TABLE subordinate Simple Form Present I, you, we, they subordinate he, she, it subordinates Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they subordinated Present perfect I, you, we, they have subordinated he, she, it has subordinated Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had subordinated Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will subordinate Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have subordinated Continuous Form Present I am subordinating he, she, it is subordinating you, we, they are subordinating Past I, he, she, it was subordinating you, we, they were subordinating Present perfect I, you, we, they have been subordinating he, she, it has been subordinating Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been subordinating Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be subordinating Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been subordinating Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS According to this view, Idealism had made the mistake of subordinating political considerations to moral considerations. After the fall, these alliances continued, and both parties had strong interests in subordinating women. Back to Tradition was the slogan, and if that included subordinating women, so be it. Did this mean that Aquitaine was going to be permanently subordinated to the ruler of the Anglo-Norman realm? In this period, justice is subordinated to adult authority. She's quite talented but she subordinates all her interests to his. Word family WORD FAMILYnounsubordinationsubordinateadjectivesubordinate to put someone or something in a less important positionsubordinate somebody/something to somebody/something Why subordinate your wishes to those of your family?—subordination /səˌbɔːdəˈneɪʃən $ -ˌbɔːr-/ noun [uncountable]
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