Subsidiary vs Su - What's the difference?
subsidiary | su |
Auxiliary or supplemental.
* (John Florio) (1553-1625)
* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
Secondary or subordinate.
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, 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)
A company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company.
(music) a subordinate theme
and of its variant forms.
* 1950 , The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe , Fontana Lions (1980), ISBN 0-00-671663-6, page 54:
of Chinese origin (see: , simplified).
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)- chief ruler and principal head everywhere, not suffragant and subsidiary
- They constituted a useful subsidiary testimony of another state of existence.
George Goodchild
- George the Second relied on his subsidiary treaties.
Noun
(subsidiaries)su
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- "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.