Subsidiary

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Subsidiary \Sub*sid"i*a*ry\, n.; pl. {Subsidiaries}.
     One who, or that which, contributes aid or additional
     supplies; an assistant; an auxiliary. --Hammond.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Subsidiary \Sub*sid"i*a*ry\, a. [L. subsidiarius: cf. F.
     subsidiaire. See {Subsidy}.]
     1. Furnishing aid; assisting; auxiliary; helping; tributary;
        especially, aiding in an inferior position or capacity;
        as, a subsidiary stream.
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              Chief ruler and principal head everywhere, not
              suffragant and subsidiary.            --Florio.
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              They constituted a useful subsidiary testimony of
              another state of existence.           --Coleridge.
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     2. Of or pertaining to a subsidy; constituting a subsidy;
        being a part of, or of the nature of, a subsidy; as,
        subsidiary payments to an ally.
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              George the Second relied on his subsidiary treaties.
                                                    --Ld. Mahon.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  subsidiary
       adj 1: relating to something that is added but is not essential;
              "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms
              of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxilliary
              to each other" [syn: {accessory}, {adjunct}, {ancillary},
               {adjuvant}, {appurtenant}, {auxiliary}]
       2: functioning in a subsidiary or supporting capacity; "the
          main library and its auxiliary branches" [syn: {auxiliary},
           {supplemental}, {supplementary}]
       n 1: an assistant subject to the authority or control of another
            [syn: {subordinate}, {underling}, {foot soldier}]
       2: a company that is completely controlled by another company
          [syn: {subsidiary company}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  63 Moby Thesaurus words for "subsidiary":
     accessory, accident, accidental, addendum, addition, additional,
     adjunct, adjuvant, adscititious, adventitious, ancillary,
     appendage, appurtenance, appurtenant, ascititious, assistant,
     assisting, auxiliary, casual, circumstantial, collateral,
     contingency, contingent, contributory, dotal, dower, dowered,
     dowry, endowed, extra, fortuitous, fostering, happenstance,
     helping, incidental, inessential, instrumental, invested,
     mere chance, ministerial, ministering, ministrant, minor,
     nonessential, not-self, nurtural, nutricial, other, pensionary,
     secondary, serving, stipendiary, subordinate to, subservient,
     superadded, superaddition, superfluous, supervenient, supplement,
     supplemental, supplementary, tributary, unessential