subcompany

English

Alternative forms
  • sub-company

Etymology

sub- +‎ company

Noun

subcompany (plural subcompanies)

  1. A company forming part of a larger company. [19th c.]
    • 1997, James Pool, Suzanne Pool, chapter 8, in Who Financed Hitler‎, U.S.A., →ISBN, page 432:
      With large credits borrowed in the name of Charlottenhütte he managed to gain control over the Rhein-Elbe Union, another large steel firm which in 1926 consolidated with one of its subcompanies, the old and respected Gelsenkirchen Mining Company, and assumed the latter’s name.
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