Definitions For Subordination

noun

  • The act of mastering or subordinating someone
  • The quality of obedient submissiveness
  • The grammatical relation of a modifying word or phrase to its head
  • The semantic relation of being subordinate or belonging to a lower rank or class
  • The state of being subordinate to something
  • Someone who has less power or authority than someone else : someone who is subordinate to someone else

verb

  • To think of or treat (someone or something) as less important than someone or something else

Is Subordination a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
16
Words with Friends
20

The word Subordination is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Subordination in a Sentence

  • His contention is that environment plays a subordinate role to heredity in determining what we become
  • She leaves the day-to-day running of the firm to her subordinates.
  • Subordinates do most of the actual creation of the famous designer's clothing designs
  • It is one of the lessons of history that more powerful civilizations often subordinate weaker ones

Synonyms for Subordination

Antonyms for Subordination

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