Subsidiary vs Attained - What's the difference?

subsidiary | attained |

As an adjective subsidiary

is auxiliary or supplemental.

As a noun subsidiary

is a company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company.

As a verb attained is

past tense of attain.

subsidiary

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Auxiliary or supplemental.

* (John Florio) (1553-1625)

chief ruler and principal head everywhere, not suffragant and subsidiary

* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)

They constituted a useful subsidiary testimony of another state of existence.

Secondary or subordinate.

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Of, or relating to a subsidy.

* (1805-1875)

George the Second relied on his subsidiary treaties.

Noun

(subsidiaries)

A company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company.

(music) a subordinate theme

attained

English

Verb

(head)

(attain)

attain

English

Verb

(en verb)

To accomplish; to achieve.

To attain such a high level of proficiency requires hours of practice each day.

To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain.

* Fuller

not well attaining his meaning

To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.

* Milton

Canaan he now attains .

* Bible, Psalms cxxxix. 6

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I can not attain unto it.

To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach.

* Bible, Acts xxvii. 12

if by any means they might attain to Phenice

* Sir Walter Scott

Nor nearer might the dogs attain .

* Cowper

to see your trees attain to the dignity of timber

* J. R. Green

Few boroughs had as yet attained to power such as this.

To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.

(obsolete) To overtake.

(Francis Bacon)