subordination
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French subordination, from Medieval Latin subordinatio.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /səˌbɔːdɪˈneɪʃn̩/
- (General American) IPA(key): /səˌbɔɹɾn̩ˈeɪʃn̩/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
- Hyphenation: sub‧or‧di‧na‧tion
Noun edit
subordination (countable and uncountable, plural subordinations)
- The process of making or classing (something or somebody) as subordinate.
- 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria[1], New York: Leavitt, Lord & Co., published 1834:
- Sound logic, as the habitual subordination of the individual to the species, and of the species to the genus […]
- The property of being subordinate; inferiority of rank or position.
- 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.
Related terms edit
With prefixes
- coordinate, coordination
- foreordination
- insubordination
- postordination
- preordination
- reordination
- subordinate, subordination
- subordination
- superordination
Translations edit
process of making or classing as subordinate
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property of being subordinate
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quality of being properly obedient to a superior; this quality as a systemic principle of discipline
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See also edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Latin subordinātiōnem. See also subordonner and -ation.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /sy.bɔʁ.di.na.sjɔ̃/
Audio: (file) - Homophone: subordinations
Noun edit
subordination f (plural subordinations)
- subordination
- (grammar) use of subclauses
- Antonym: parataxe
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “subordination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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