Peers vs Subordinate - What's the difference?
peers | subordinate |
Placed in a lower class, rank, or position.
* Woodward
Submissive or inferior to, or controlled by, authority.
* South
(grammar, of a clause, not comparable) dependent on and either modifying or complementing the main clause
To make subservient.
To treat as of less value or importance.
(finance) To make of lower priority in order of payment in bankruptcy.
As a proper noun peers
is a section of the british houses of parliament, the house of lords, the house of peers or peers can be , variant of piers.As an adjective subordinate is
placed in a lower class, rank, or position.As a noun subordinate is
(senseid)(countable) one who is subordinate.As a verb subordinate is
to make subservient.subordinate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished.
- It was subordinate , not enslaved, to the understanding.
- In the sentence, “The barbecue finished before John arrived”, the subordinate clause “before John arrived” specifies the time of the main clause, “The barbecue finished”.