Hypertext Webster Gateway: "subsidiary"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Subsidiary \Sub*sid"i*a*ry\, a. [L. subsidiarius: cf. F.
subsidiaire. See {Subsidy}.]
1. Furnishing aid; assisting; auxiliary; helping; tributary;
especially, aiding in an inferior position or capacity;
as, a subsidiary stream.
Chief ruler and principal head everywhere, not
suffragant and subsidiary. --Florio.
They constituted a useful subsidiary testimony of
another state of existence. --Coleridge.
2. Of or pertaining to a subsidy; constituting a subsidy;
being a part of, or of the nature of, a subsidy; as,
subsidiary payments to an ally.
George the Second relied on his subsidiary treaties.
--Ld. Mahon.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Subsidiary \Sub*sid"i*a*ry\, n.; pl. {Subsidiaries}.
One who, or that which, contributes aid or additional
supplies; an assistant; an auxiliary. --Hammond.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
subsidiary
adj 1: relating to something that is added but is not essential;
"an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms
of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxilliary
to each other" [syn: {accessory}, {adjunct}, {ancillary},
{adjuvant}, {appurtenant}, {auxiliary}]
2: functioning in a subsidiary or supporting capacity; "the
main library and its auxiliary branches" [syn: {auxiliary},
{supplemental}, {supplementary}]
n 1: someone subject to the authority or control of another [syn:
{subordinate}, {underling}]
2: a company that is completely controlled by another company
[syn: {subsidiary company}]
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