different between subsidiary vs subclause

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

English

Etymology

sub- +? clause

Noun

subclause (plural subclauses)

1. (grammar) A subordinate clause.
2. A subsidiary clause in a legal contract etc.

Verb

subclause (third-person singular simple present subclauses, present participle subclausing, simple past and past participle subclaused)

1. (transitive) To qualify with a subclause.
   • 1970, Yale/Theatre (volumes 3-4, page 86)

     Too many serious reviews are subclaused, hyperbolic conscious, egotistical and self-indulgent, not to mention boring.

   • 2002, New Scientist (volume 176, issues 2367-2375, page 57)

     In a light dry style, free from academic subclausing, the ever-acute Smith gets right into the minutiae of these communities - who is growing what and why - and how it affects the neighbours.

   • 2016, Adam Fletcher, How to be German - Part 2: in 50 new steps

     However, in their execution, they can be too exacting, too demanding, creating a practicality monster that rampages through German society in its high-visibility jacket, measuring, judging, clausing, subclausing, contracting, securing, […]