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Subsidiary vs Subsidiarity - What's the difference?

subsidiary | subsidiarity |

As nouns the difference between subsidiary and subsidiarity

is that subsidiary is a company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company while subsidiarity is the principle that government power ought to reside at the lowest feasible level (i.e. at the local or regional level, instead of the national or supranational level, unless the latter presents clear advantages.

As an adjective subsidiary

is auxiliary or supplemental.

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
  • subsidiarity

    Noun

    (-)
  • The principle that government power ought to reside at the lowest feasible level (i.e. at the local or regional level, instead of the national or supranational level, unless the latter presents clear advantages)