Subsidiary vs Subfunction - What's the difference?
subsidiary | subfunction |
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
A secondary or subsidiary function.
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=May 13, author=Ginia Bellafante, title=Where It’s 1977 and 2007 All at the Same Time, work=New York Times
, passage=“Lost” is certainly to be granted its points for its subfunction as a soap opera this season. }}
As nouns the difference between subsidiary and subfunction
is that subsidiary is a company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company while subfunction is a secondary or subsidiary function.As an adjective subsidiary
is auxiliary or supplemental.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)subfunction
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Noun
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