subsidiary
/sʌbˈsɪ.di.əɹ.i/
subsidiary adjective: auxiliary or supplemental.
Adjective
subsidiary (comparative more subsidiary, superlative most subsidiary)
- Auxiliary or supplemental.
- chief ruler and principal head everywhere, not suffragant and subsidiary1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays
- They constituted a useful subsidiary testimony of another state of existence.May 1, 1823, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Difference between stories of dreams and ghosts […]
- Secondary or subordinate.
- a subsidiary stream
- By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court
- Of or relating to a subsidy.
- subsidiary payments to an ally
- George the Second relied on his subsidiary treaties.1836-1853, Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope, History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles, 1713-1783
Noun
subsidiary (plural subsidiaries)
- A company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company.
- A subordinate theme.
- One who aids or supplies; an assistant.
subsidiary meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
subsidiary in Hindi
- company owned by a parent company or a holding company
- समनुषंगी samnuṣaṅgī
subsidiary in Tamil
- துணையாகப் பயன்படுகிற, துணை, துணையான
subsidiary in Urdu
- ماتحت
subsidiary in Bengali
- সহায়ক, সম্পূরক, অধীন, সাহায্যদায়ক, সাপেক্ষ
More languagesFewer languages
- subsidiary in Malayalam
- സഹായിക്കുന്ന, അനുബന്ധമായ
- subsidiary in Kannada
- ಅಧೀನ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆ, ಆಶ್ರಿತ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆ, ಉಪಾಂಗ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆ, ಒತ್ತಾಸೆಯ
- subsidiary in Tagalog
- kubsamahan
Examples of subsidiary in a sentence
- Top management decided to base our new Spanish subsidiary in Arévalo (Ávila).
- All transactions were entered in the cash blotter and agent's subsidiary ledger.
- Meyer, president of the company’s United States subsidiary, based in New York.
Forms of subsidiary
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more subsidiary |
| superlative | most subsidiary |
| Noun | |
| plural | subsidiaries |
Origin of subsidiary
From Middle French subsidiaire, from Latin subsidiarius (“belonging to a reserve”).
Words formed from subsidiary
Phrases with subsidiary
Questions about subsidiary
- What does subsidiary mean?
- Subsidiary means auxiliary or supplemental.
- What is subsidiary in Hindi?
- Subsidiary in Hindi is समनुषंगी (samnuṣaṅgī). See Subsidiary meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is subsidiary?
- Subsidiary can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce subsidiary?
- Subsidiary is pronounced /sʌbˈsɪ.di.əɹ.i/.
Words near subsidiary in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: subsidiary (page history and authors); subsidiary (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); subsidiary (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); subsidiary (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); subsidiary (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); subsidiary (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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