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subordinations

subordinations is the plural of subordination.

Meaning of subordination

Noun

subordination (countable and uncountable, plural subordinations)

  1. The process of making or classing (something or somebody) as subordinate.
    • Sound logic, as the habitual subordination of the individual to the species, and of the species to the genus […]1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, New York: Leavitt, Lord & Co., published 1834
  2. The property of being subordinate; inferiority of rank or position.
  3. The quality of being properly obedient to a superior (as a superior officer); this quality as a systemic principle of discipline within a hierarchical organization.

Questions about subordinations

What is subordinations the plural of?
Subordinations is the plural of subordination.

Words near subordinations in the dictionary

  1. subordinationalist
  2. subordinationalists
  3. subordinationism
  4. subordinationist
  5. subordinationists
  6. subordinations
  7. subordinative
  8. subordinator
  9. subordinators
  10. subordines
  11. subordo

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