different between annex vs subsidiary

English

Pronunciation

• Noun:
  • (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?æn?ks/
• Verb:
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?æn?ks/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /??n?ks/, /?æn?ks/
• Rhymes: -?ks

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French annexe, from Latin annexus.

Alternative forms

• annexe (UK, Australia, New Zealand)
• anex (US)
• annx.
• anx.

Noun

annex (plural annexes)

1. An addition, an extension.
2. An appendix to a book or document.
3. An addition or extension to a building.
4. An addition to the territory of a country or state, from a neighbouring country or state, normally by military force.

Synonyms

• (something additional): addition, supplement; See also Thesaurus:adjunct or Thesaurus:augmentation

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English annexen, anexen, from Old French annexer (“to join”), from Medieval Latin annex?re, infinitive of annex?, frequentative of Latin annect? (“bind to”), from ad (“to”) + nect? (“tie, bind”).

Verb

annex (third-person singular simple present annexes, present participle annexing, simple past and past participle annexed)

1. To add something to another thing, especially territory; to incorporate.

   The ancient city of Petra was annexed by Rome.
2. To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.
   • 1793, John Horne Tooke, The Constitution of England

     Under Edward the Second, the Commons began to annex petitions to the bills by which they granted subsidies

3. (intransitive) To join; to be united.

Synonyms

• underjoin

Antonyms

• separate

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• merge
• fuse
• add

Anagrams

• xenna-

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin annexus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /??n?ks/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a?n?ks/

Noun

annex m (plural annexos)

1. annex (an addition, an extension)
2. annex (an addition to a building)

Derived terms

• annexar

Further reading

• “annex” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Swedish

Noun

annex n

1. annex (an addition to a building)
2. annex (an addition, an extension)

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle French subsidiaire, from Latin subsidiarius (“belonging to a reserve”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?b?s?.di.??.i/, /s?b?s?.d??.i/, /s?b?s?.d???.i/

Adjective

subsidiary (comparative more subsidiary, superlative most subsidiary)

1. Auxiliary or supplemental.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, John Florio (translator), Essays

     chief ruler and principal head everywhere, not suffragant and subsidiary

   • May 1, 1823, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Difference between stories of dreams and ghosts […]

     They constituted a useful subsidiary testimony of another state of existence.

2. Secondary or subordinate.
3. Of, or relating to a subsidy.
   • 1836-1853, Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope, History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles, 1713-1783

     George the Second relied on his subsidiary treaties.

Translations

Noun

subsidiary (plural subsidiaries)

1. A company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company.
2. (music) A subordinate theme.
3. One who aids or supplies; an assistant.

Translations