subsidiary

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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; an assistant.
形容词 adj.
  1. Auxiliary or supplemental.
    — chief ruler and principal head everywhere, not suffragant and subsidiary
  2. Secondary or subordinate.
    — a subsidiary stream
  3. Of or relating to a subsidy.
    — subsidiary payments to an ally

词形变化

more subsidiary comparative most subsidiary superlative subsidiaries plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle French subsidiaire, from Latin subsidiarius (“belonging to a reserve”).
词源 2
From Middle French subsidiaire, from Latin subsidiarius (“belonging to a reserve”).
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