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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.

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