1. subordinate - Noun
2. subordinate - Adjective
3. subordinate - Verb
Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.
Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like.
One who stands in order or rank below another; -- distinguished from a principal.
To place in a lower order or class; to make or consider as of less value or importance; as, to subordinate one creature to another.
To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to subordinate the passions to reason.
Source: Webster's dictionaryBut I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind. Jack London
In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art. André Malraux
Adolf Hitler may have been wrong all down the line, but one thing is beyond dispute: the man was able to work his way up from lance corporal in the German Army to Führer of a people of almost 80 million. His success alone proved that I should subordinate myself to this man. Adolf Eichmann
Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in having or in doing, which are processes. In function and process, one man, one part, must of necessity be subordinate to another. It is a condition of being. D. H. Lawrence
Life is whole only when it isn't subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom. Georges Bataille
Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity. John Mearsheimer