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sub-company

sub-company is the alternative spelling of subcompany.

Meaning of subcompany

Noun

subcompany (plural subcompanies)

  1. A company forming part of a larger company.
    • With large credits borrowed in the name of Charlottenhütte he managed to gain control over the Rhein-Elbe Union, another large steel firm which in 1926 consolidated with one of its subcompanies, the old and respected Gelsenkirchen Mining Company, and assumed the latter’s name.1997, James Pool, Suzanne Pool, chapter 8, in Who Financed Hitler, U.S.A., →ISBN, page 432

Forms of sub-company

pluralsub-companies

Questions about sub-company

What is sub-company the alternative spelling of?
Sub-company is the alternative spelling of subcompany.

Words near sub-company in the dictionary

  1. sub-cloud cars
  2. sub-commentaries
  3. sub-commentary
  4. sub-commune
  5. sub-companies
  6. sub-company
  7. sub-component
  8. sub-components
  9. sub-deacon
  10. sub-deacons
  11. sub-depot

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sub-company (page history and authors); subcompany (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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