Thesaurus / subordinate
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Messonnier has told colleagues that, not being a virologist or laboratory specialist, she relied on subordinates with greater subject-matter expertise.
THE CDC’S FAILED RACE AGAINST COVID-19: A THREAT UNDERESTIMATED AND A TEST OVERCOMPLICATEDDAVID WILLMANDECEMBER 26, 2020WASHINGTON POSTBecause my parents had the same kind of job, I never considered one of their careers as subordinate to the other.
CATHERINE DULAC FINDS BRAIN CIRCUITRY BEHIND SEX-SPECIFIC BEHAVIORSCLAUDIA DREIFUSDECEMBER 14, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINEPichai quietly withdrew from the board in 2018 and installed a Google subordinate in his place.
MAGIC LEAP TRIED TO CREATE AN ALTERNATE REALITY. ITS FOUNDER WAS ALREADY IN ONEVERNE KOPYTOFFSEPTEMBER 26, 2020FORTUNEDistill it down, and Greenlight is a way for parents to move money from one account to a subordinate—a role that several money-transfer services already fulfill with Square’s Cash App and PayPal’s Venmo.
ARE KIDS’ ALLOWANCES RECESSION-PROOF?LUCINDA SHENSEPTEMBER 24, 2020FORTUNESame-sex unions would not have opted into the pattern of marriage, which was a relationship, a dominant and a subordinate relationship.
‘SKIM MILK’ MARRIAGES NOT ENOUGH: GINSBURG REMEMBERED AS LGBTQ ALLYCHRIS JOHNSONSEPTEMBER 21, 2020WASHINGTON BLADEBessires was included because he would never win it at any later date, but his doglike devotion made him a priceless subordinate.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONSo far Murat had always held subordinate commands; his great ambition was to become the commander-in-chief of an independent army.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONIn 1800 Massna took his trusty subordinate with him to Italy as lieutenant-general of the centre of the army.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONAn appeal by a member of a subordinate lodge from a vote of expulsion does not abate by his death while the appeal is pending.
PUTNAM'S HANDY LAW BOOK FOR THE LAYMANALBERT SIDNEY BOLLESOn the following day he was deprived of his office, and degraded to the rank of subordinate to a new steward.
A WOMAN'S JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLDIDA PFEIFFERWORDS RELATED TO SUBORDINATE
- accountable
- apt
- at one's feet
- bound by
- captive
- collateral
- conditional
- contingent
- controlled
- dependent
- directed
- disposed
- enslaved
- exposed
- governed
- in danger of
- inferior
- liable
- likely
- obedient
- open
- prone
- provisional
- ruled
- satellite
- secondary
- sensitive
- servile
- slavish
- sub
- subaltern
- subjugated
- submissive
- subordinate
- subservient
- substract
- susceptible
- tentative
- tributary
- under
- vulnerable
- abettor
- accessory
- accomplice
- adherent
- adjunct
- aid
- aide
- ally
- appointee
- apprentice
- attendant
- backer
- backup
- coadjutant
- coadjutor
- collaborator
- colleague
- companion
- deputy
- fellow worker
- follower
- friend
- gal Friday
- girl Friday
- gofer
- help
- helpmate
- henchman
- man Friday
- paraprofessional
- partner
- reliever
- right-hand man/woman
- right-hand person
- secretary
- servant
- subordinate
- supporter
- temp
- temporary worker
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