subordination

From Middle French subordination, from Medieval Latin subordinatio.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /səˌbɔːdɪˈneɪʃn̩/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /səˌbɔɹɾn̩ˈeɪʃn̩/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: sub‧or‧di‧na‧tion

subordination (countable and uncountable, plural subordinations)

1. The process of making or classing (something or somebody) as subordinate.
   • 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria‎, New York: Leavitt, Lord & Co., published 1834:

     Sound logic, as the habitual subordination of the individual to the species, and of the species to the genus […]

2. The property of being subordinate; inferiority of rank or position.
3. The quality of being properly obedient to a superior (as a superior officer); this quality as a systemic principle of discipline within a hierarchical organization.

Borrowed from Late Latin subordinātiōnem. See also subordonner and -ation.

• IPA^(key): /sy.bɔʁ.di.na.sjɔ̃/

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• Homophone: subordinations

subordination f (plural subordinations)

1. subordination
2. (grammar) use of subclauses

   Antonym: parataxe

• conjonction de subordination
• insubordination

• “subordination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.