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subsidiary | su |

As an adjective subsidiary

is auxiliary or supplemental.

As a noun subsidiary

is a company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company.

As an adverb su is

up, upward, upwards.

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
  • su

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • and of its variant forms.
  • * 1950 , The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe , Fontana Lions (1980), ISBN 0-00-671663-6, page 54:
  • "I am sure nobody would mind," said Susan; "it isn't as if we wanted to take them out of the house; we shan't take them even out of the wardrobe." "I never thought of that, Su ," said Peter.
  • of Chinese origin (see: , simplified).
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