Definition of subordination in English:
subordination
noun səˌbɔːdɪˈneɪʃnsəˌbɔrdnˈeɪʃ(ə)n
mass nounThe action of subordinating or the state of being subordinate.
the subordination of medicine to political expediency
Example sentencesExamples
- The character of such a party was also designed to maintain the subordination of the working class to the old bureaucracies.
- Women in Venezuela have been conditioned for centuries to blame themselves and accept their subordination to men.
- The power to wage war inherent in the authority of a government provides the necessary subordination of citizen to state.
- As an educationist, her surmise is that literacy had failed to free women from their predicament of subordination.
- Indeed he acted all his life on one principle which he thought the essence of a soldier's code: the subordination of self to team work.
Synonyms
inferiority, inferior status/position, secondary status/position, lowliness
subjection, subservience, submission, dependence, servitude
Definition of subordination in US English:
subordination
nounsəˌbɔrdnˈeɪʃ(ə)nsəˌbôrdnˈāSH(ə)n
The action or state of subordinating or of being subordinate.
the subordination of medicine to political expediency
Example sentencesExamples
- Women in Venezuela have been conditioned for centuries to blame themselves and accept their subordination to men.
- The character of such a party was also designed to maintain the subordination of the working class to the old bureaucracies.
- As an educationist, her surmise is that literacy had failed to free women from their predicament of subordination.
- The power to wage war inherent in the authority of a government provides the necessary subordination of citizen to state.
- Indeed he acted all his life on one principle which he thought the essence of a soldier's code: the subordination of self to team work.
Synonyms
inferiority, inferior position, inferior status, secondary position, secondary status, lowliness