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Subsidiary vs Diary - What's the difference?

subsidiary | diary |

As adjectives the difference between subsidiary and diary

is that subsidiary is auxiliary or supplemental while diary is (obsolete) lasting for one day.

As nouns the difference between subsidiary and diary

is that subsidiary is a company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company while diary is a daily log of experiences, especially those of the writer.

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
  • diary

    English

    (Personal journal)

    Noun

    (diaries)
  • A daily log of experiences, especially those of the writer.
  • The method or media used to keep such experiences.
  • They kept separate diaries'''. His was on paper and her '''diary was on her computer's hard drive.
  • (British, Canada) A calendar or appointment book.
  • Synonyms

    * daybook * journal

    Derived terms

    * diarist

    Coordinate terms

    * calendar * daybook * chronicle * log

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Lasting for one day.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • The offer of a usurpation, though it was but as a diary ague.

    Anagrams

    * dairy