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subcompany

subcompany noun: a company forming part of a larger company.

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 subcompany

pluralsubcompanies
alternative formsub-company

Origin of subcompany

From sub- + company.

Questions about subcompany

What does subcompany mean?
Subcompany means a company forming part of a larger company.
What part of speech is subcompany?
Subcompany is a noun.
What is the plural of subcompany?
The plural of subcompany is subcompanies.

Words near subcompany in the dictionary

  1. subcommutator
  2. subcommutators
  3. subcompact
  4. subcompacts
  5. subcompanies
  6. subcompany
  7. subcompartment
  8. subcompartmental
  9. subcompartmentalise
  10. subcompartmentalised
  11. subcompartmentalises

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