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Assistance vs Subsidiary - What's the difference?

assistance | subsidiary |

As nouns the difference between assistance and subsidiary

is that assistance is aid; help; the act or result of assisting 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.

assistance

English

(wikipedia assistance)

Alternative forms

* assistaunce

Noun

(en noun)
  • Aid; help; the act or result of assisting.

    • Derived terms

    * public assistance

    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.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
    • , 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.

    Noun

    (subsidiaries)
  • A company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company.
  • (music) a subordinate theme