subordination
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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
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)
Chap. iv, "The Social Subordination of Woman," pp. 79-101.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra
Subordination prelatical, which is of one or more parishes to the prelate and his cathedral, is denied; all particular churches being collateral, and of the same authority.
From The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London by
Chicago, 1917, LXIX, 861-863; see also his, "Objective Psychobiology, or Psychobiology with Subordination of the Medically Useless Contrast of Medical and Physical," Journal A.M.A.,
From A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 by New York Hospital. Society
Vocabulary lists containing subordination
The Federalist Papers, No. 9 by Alexander Hamilton
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Second Treatise of Government
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