Supervisor vs Subordinate - What's the difference?
supervisor | subordinate | Antonyms |
(management) A person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group.
A person who monitors someone to make sure they comply with rules or other requirements set for them.
(US) In certain states, an elected member of the governing body for a county which is called the board of supervisors.
Placed in a lower class, rank, or position.
* Woodward
Submissive or inferior to, or controlled by, authority.
* South
(grammar, of a clause, not comparable) dependent on and either modifying or complementing the main clause
To make subservient.
To treat as of less value or importance.
(finance) To make of lower priority in order of payment in bankruptcy.
Subordinate is a antonym of supervisor.
As nouns the difference between supervisor and subordinate
is that supervisor is a person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group while subordinate is (one who is subordinate) One who is subordinate.As an adjective subordinate is
placed in a lower class, rank, or position.As a verb subordinate is
to make subservient.supervisor
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Alternative forms
* supervisour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)See also
* manager * on-call supervisor. * superintendentReferences
*Anagrams
* ----subordinate
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished.
- It was subordinate , not enslaved, to the understanding.
- In the sentence, “The barbecue finished before John arrived”, the subordinate clause “before John arrived” specifies the time of the main clause, “The barbecue finished”.
