Acquisition vs Subsidiary - What's the difference?
acquisition | subsidiary |
The act or process of acquiring.
The thing acquired or gained; a gain.
Auxiliary or supplemental.
* (John Florio) (1553-1625)
* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
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)
A company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company.
(music) a subordinate theme
As nouns the difference between acquisition and subsidiary
is that acquisition is the act or process of acquiring while subsidiary is a company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company.As an adjective subsidiary is
auxiliary or supplemental.acquisition
English
Noun
(en noun)- The acquisition of sports equipment can be fun in itself.
- ''That graphite tennis racquet is quite an acquisition .
Synonyms
* (an act of acquiring) accession, procurement * (a thing acquired) accession, acquirementExternal links
* * ----subsidiary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- chief ruler and principal head everywhere, not suffragant and subsidiary
- They constituted a useful subsidiary testimony of another state of existence.
George Goodchild
- George the Second relied on his subsidiary treaties.