Subordinate vs Servant - What's the difference?
subordinate | servant |
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.
One who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave.
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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
One who serves another, providing help in some manner.
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As nouns the difference between subordinate and servant
is that subordinate is (one who is subordinate) One who is subordinate while servant is one who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave.As verbs the difference between subordinate and servant
is that subordinate is to make subservient while servant is to subject.As an adjective subordinate
is placed in a lower class, rank, or position.subordinate
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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”.