subordinated

[ suh-bawr-dn-ey-tid ]

/ səˈbɔr dnˌeɪ tɪd /

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adjective Finance.

noting or designating a debt obligation whose holder is placed in precedence below secured and general creditors: subordinated debentures.

Origin of subordinated

subordinate + -ed²

OTHER WORDS FROM subordinated

un·sub·or·di·nat·ed, adjective

Words nearby subordinated

suborder, subordinal, subordinary, subordinate, subordinate clause, subordinated, subordinated debt, subordinating conjunction, subordination, subordinationism, suborn

Example sentences from the Web for subordinated

In the age of aristocrats everything was subordinated to family bloodlines.
Can We Divorce Our Elites?|James Poulos|April 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Palestine Partition plan failed because it took ethnic isolationism as a value and subordinated justice to it.
Who's Afraid of Caroline Glick?|Ahmed Moor|May 24, 2012|DAILY BEAST
They have subordinated reason, conscience, and religion to this.
The World's Great Sermons, Volume 5: Guthrie to Mozley|Various
Almost everything was subordinated now to this one desire to take her place in the world.
The Rainbow|D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

It is clear that religious motives must have been often subordinated to other interests.
An Introduction to the History of Western Europe|James Harvey Robinson
For no State can exist unless the spiritual power be subordinated to the temporal power.
German Problems and Personalities|Charles Sarolea
The only time that music is not subordinated to other purposes of the evening's gathering, is at the musicale.
Book of Etiquette, Volume 2|Lillian Eichler Watson