subordination
subordination
Definition
sub·or·di·na·tion (sə bôrd′'n ā′s̸hən)
noun
- a subordinating or being subordinated
- Now Rare subjection or submission to rank, power, or authority; obedience
subordination
Synonyms
subordination
Law Definition
n
A giving of lower ranking,
class, or priority to one claim or debt with respect to another claim or debt.
subordination
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- minority: No, democracy is not identical with the subordination of the minority to the majority.
- woman: Among advocates of relational subordination of women, with more or less fixed roles, see esp.
- individual: In it the idea of the subordination of the individual to the state appears in its most extreme form.
- interest: It is costly and it will lead to the subordination of the public interest to the needs of private profit.
- labor: The first is how has this transition from the formal to the real subordination of academic labor been achieved?
- proletariat: In Spain the Popular Front policy translated into a subordination of the proletariat to the Spanish bourgeoisie.
Possessives
- woman: Now try ' discrimination against women ' and ' women's subordination ' .
Converse of object
- mean: The Popular Fronts in essence meant the subordination of workers ' parties to the capitalist political system.
- ensure: The conditions for fulfillment of this societal need will not always coincide with the employer's interest in ensuring the subordination of the employe.
- imply: Belief in god implies subordination of man to the divine will.
- avoid: Thailand, balancing between British and French imperialism, managed to avoid formal subordination to any foreign power.
- involve: The central feature of the resulting union of egoists is that it does not involve the subordination of the individual.
- require: This requires some subordination of present to future objectives, and in particular getting the best education of which we are capable.
Adjective modifier
- female: This is still often not the case, especially in Northern India where female subordination is more acute.
- due: To assist the Master and Matron respectively in maintaining due subordination in the Workhouse.
- imperative: Draft of recommendation N° 3 on the imperative subordination of the objectives of the ITC/D to those of the sustainable human development.
- strict: The strict subordination to the British of both Indians and mixed race was strongly enforced by the memsahibs.
- total: It succeeded for some time in creating almost total subordination of the public to business rule through the 1920s.
- real: The first is how has this transition from the formal to the real subordination of academic labor been achieved?
Noun used with modifier
- gender: Gender subordination has long been seen as reproduced through schooling, through curricula and curricular transactions.
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