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subsidiary

adj
/sʌbˈsɪ.di.əɹ.i/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from subsidiarius — “belonging to a reserve”
  2. derived from subsidiaire

Definitions

  1. Auxiliary or supplemental.

    • chief ruler and principal head everywhere, not suffragant and subsidiary
    • They constituted a useful subsidiary testimony of another state of existence.

  2. Secondary or subordinate.

    • a subsidiary stream

  3. Of or relating to a subsidy.

    • subsidiary payments to an ally
    • George the Second relied on his subsidiary treaties.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or…

      A company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company.

    2. A subordinate theme.

    3. One who aids or supplies

      One who aids or supplies; an assistant.

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Derived

nonsubsidiary, subsidiarily, subsidiariness, subsidiarization, subsidiary legislation, intersubsidiary, subsidiarize

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at subsidiary. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at subsidiary. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at subsidiary

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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