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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, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5 , passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}

Of, or relating to a subsidy.

* (1805-1875)

George the Second relied on his subsidiary treaties.