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subordination

[suh-bawr-dn-ey-shuhn] / səˌbɔr dnˈeɪ ʃən /
NOUN
subjection
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Subordination describes the process of relegating a creditor’s claim below that of others.

From New York Times • Feb. 29, 2012

Chap. iv, "The Social Subordination of Woman," pp. 79-101.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra

Disregard of Facts, and Subordination to the Vatican.—2.

From Boer Politics by Guyot, Yves

It would be right to establish some military Rank for every commissioned Officer of the Hospital on Service, and to settle the same Subordination in the physical as in the military Department.

From An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Monro, Donald

The Subordination of Industry to the Family Life is necessary, therefore, from a social point of view.

From Sociology and Modern Social Problems by Ellwood, Charles A. (Charles Abram)




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