Subsidiary vs Supplier - What's the difference?
subsidiary | supplier |
Auxiliary or supplemental.
* (John Florio) (1553-1625)
* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
Secondary or subordinate.
*{{quote-book, year=1935, author=
, 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
One who supplies; a provider.
* {{quote-magazine, title=An internet of airborne things, date=2012-12-01, volume=405, issue=8813, page=3 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=
, passage=A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.}}
(soccer) Someone who assists (sets up) a goal.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=January 16
, author=Saj Chowdhury
, title=Sunderland 1 - 1 Newcastle
, work=BBC
As nouns the difference between subsidiary and supplier
is that subsidiary is a company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company while supplier is one who supplies; a provider.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)supplier
English
(wikipedia supplier)Noun
(en noun)citation
citation, page= , passage=Regular supplier Barton played in another teasing corner, which was headed on towards goal by the impressive Ameobi and flicked in by expert poacher Nolan.}}