Subordinate - English meaning

noun

A military officer who acts as an administrative assistant to a senior officer.

Usage examples:

He eventually became adjutant to the commander of the tactical air force

noun

A military officer who does office work and who is responsible for rules and punishment among the lower ranks

noun

An assistant to an important person, especially a political leader.

Usage examples:

A presidential aide

noun

A person whose job is to help someone important, such as a member of a government or a military officer of high rank

Usage examples:

A senior government aide, an aide to the prime minister

noun

A person who is learning a trade from a skilled employer, having agreed to work for a fixed period at low wages.

Usage examples:

An apprentice electrician

verb

Employ (someone) as an apprentice.

Usage examples:

Edward was apprenticed to a printer

noun

Someone who works for an expert to learn a particular skill or job

Usage examples:

He worked for two years as a plumber’s apprentice, [ i ] i apprenticed with my father, who was a st…

noun

A person who ranks below a senior person.

Usage examples:

The managing director and his assistant

noun

Someone who helps someone else to do a job

Usage examples:

An administrative/office assistant, an assistant editor/manager

noun

Someone who works in a shop, selling goods to customers and giving advice about the goods sold in the shop

Usage examples:

A sales/shop assistant

noun

A person who is appointed to undertake the duties of a superior in the superior's absence.

Usage examples:

His deputy has been largely running the business for the past year

noun

A person who is given the power to act instead of, or to help do the work of, another person

Usage examples:

A deputy chairman, the deputy editor, a sheriff’s deputy

noun

A person whose rank is immediately below that of the head of an organization or a department, and who is in charge when the head is not there

Usage examples:

He was appointed to the paris office, serving as deputy to the bureau chief., you will be required …

noun

A liveried manservant or footman.

Usage examples:

Liveried flunkies rushed forward to open the doors, tv lights flared, cameras flashed and the crowd…

noun

A person who does unimportant work or who has few or no important responsibilities and shows too much respect toward his or her employer

Usage examples:

He could snap his fingers and get his flunky to do it.

noun

The person who does the boring physical work in a company

Usage examples:

Office flunky freddy is considered the office flunkey.

noun

A faithful follower or political supporter, especially one prepared to engage in crime or violence by way of service.

Usage examples:

The dictator's henchman

noun

A person who is loyal to and works for someone in a position of authority and is willing to help that person even by hurting others or by committing crimes

Usage examples:

Although the president kept himself above the fray, his henchmen were blaming everyone.

noun

Someone who does unpleasant or illegal things for a powerful person

Usage examples:

Like other dictators, he tried to distance himself from the dirty deeds carried out by his henchmen.

adjective

Lower in rank, status, or quality.

Usage examples:

Schooling in inner-city areas was inferior to that in the rest of the country

noun

A person lower than another in rank, status, or ability.

Usage examples:

Her social and intellectual inferiors

adjective

Not good, or not as good as someone or something else

Usage examples:

Inferior to these products are inferior to those we bought last year., she cited cases in which wom…

adjective

For or denoting young or younger people.

Usage examples:

Junior tennis

noun

A person who is a specified number of years younger than someone else.

Usage examples:

He's five years her junior

adjective

Less advanced, or lower in rank

Usage examples:

The junior varsity, alfredo is a junior partner in the law firm., he was born in april, so he’s thr…

noun

A servant, especially a liveried footman or manservant.

Usage examples:

Lackeys were waiting to help them from the carriage

verb

Behave in a servile way towards (someone).

Usage examples:

He had lacqueyed and flattered walpole

noun

A servant or someone who behaves like one by obeying someone else's orders or by doing unpleasant work for them

Usage examples:

He treats us all like his lackeys.

adjective

Not so great or important as the other or the rest.

Usage examples:

He was convicted of a lesser assault charge

adjective

Not as great in size, amount, or importance as something else

Usage examples:

Texas and, to a lesser degree, oklahoma will be affected by the drought.

adjective

Used to describe something that is not as great in size, amount, or importance as something else

Usage examples:

A lesser man (= a man who was not as strong or brave) might have given up at that point., the charg…

adjective

Less high in position.

Usage examples:

The lower levels of the building

adverb

Denoting an older (and hence usually deeper) part of a stratigraphic division or archaeological deposit or the period in which it was formed or deposited.

Usage examples:

Lower cretaceous

verb

Move (someone or something) in a downward direction.

Usage examples:

He watched the coffin being lowered into the ground

adjective

Positioned below one or more similar things, or of the bottom part ...

adjective

Low in status or importance; humble.

Usage examples:

She'd been too good for her lowly position

adverb

To a low degree; in a low manner.

Usage examples:

Lowly paid workers

adjective

Not having importance or rank

Usage examples:

In chess it is possible for the lowly pawn to become the most powerful piece on the board.

noun

The sexual partner of a bird or other animal.

Usage examples:

A male bird sings to court a mate

verb

(of animals or birds) come together for breeding; copulate.

Usage examples:

Successful males may mate with many females

verb

Short for checkmate (noun).

noun

A follower or underling of a powerful person, especially a servile or unimportant one.

Usage examples:

He gets oppressed minions like me to fob them off

noun

A person who is not important and who has to do what another person of higher rank orders them to do

Usage examples:

He sent one of his minions to do something about it.

adjective

Lesser in importance, seriousness, or significance.

Usage examples:

She requested a number of minor alterations

noun

A person under the age of full legal responsibility.

Usage examples:

The court would take account of the minor's wishes

verb

Short for minor suit.

Usage examples:

A bid of two no trumps shows strength in the minors

verb

Formally support or endorse (a nomination or resolution or its proposer) as a necessary preliminary to adoption or further discussion.

Usage examples:

Bridgeman seconded maxwell's motion calling for the reform

noun

A sixtieth of a minute of time, which as the si unit of time is defined in terms of the natural periodicity of the radiation of a caesium-133 atom.

Usage examples:

Torrance squeezed the trigger, waited twenty five seconds and fired again.

verb

Transfer (a military officer or other official or worker) temporarily to other employment or another position.

Usage examples:

I was seconded to a public relations unit

noun

Someone who is almost as important as the person in charge

Usage examples:

Well, if the manager isn't available i'd like to speak to the second-in-command.

noun

A person's assistant or close associate, especially one who has less authority than that person.

Usage examples:

Sherlock holmes' bumbling sidekick watson

noun

A friend, or a person who works with someone more important

Usage examples:

The course will focus on fictional master sleuth sherlock holmes and his sidekick dr. watson.

noun

An officer in the british army below the rank of captain, especially a second lieutenant.

Usage examples:

This paramilitary force, which in 1861 numbered only 120 troopers, was organised into small divisio…

adjective

Of lower status.

Usage examples:

The private tutor was a recognized subaltern part of the bourgeois family

noun

An army officer whose rank is lower than captain

adjective

Bearing all or part of the weight of something.

Usage examples:

Supporting structures for the elevated roads will be brought to site by huge trailers

verb

Bear all or part of the weight of; hold up.

Usage examples:

The dome was supported by a hundred white columns

adjective

Not the most important actor or part in a film or play

Usage examples:

She had a small supporting part in the play.

noun

A person lower in status or rank.

Usage examples:

She was shouting orders at underlings between gulps of coffee

noun

A person of low rank and little authority who works for someone more important

Usage examples:

She surrounded herself with underlings who were too afraid of her to answer back.