subsidiary

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: sub=sid=i=ar=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

subsidiary, a. [L. subsidiarius: cf. F. subsidiaire. See Subsidy.].

•  Furnishing aid; assisting; auxiliary; helping; tributary; especially, aiding in an inferior position or capacity; as, a subsidiary stream.  [1913 Webster]

  "Chief ruler and principal head everywhere, not suffragant and subsidiary."  [1913 Webster]

  "They constituted a useful subsidiary testimony of another state of existence."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "George the Second relied on his subsidiary treaties."  [1913 Webster]

subsidiary, n. 

 One who, or that which, contributes aid or additional supplies; an assistant; an auxiliary.  Hammond.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

subsidiary, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 serving to assist or supplement; auxiliary.
2 (of a company) controlled by another.
3 (of troops): a paid for by subsidy. b hired by another nation.
--n. (pl. -ies)
1 a subsidiary thing or person; an accessory.
2 a subsidiary company.

Derivative

subsidiarily adv. subsidiarity n.

Etymology

L subsidiarius (as SUBSIDY)

THESAURUS

subsidiary

accessory, accident, accidental, addendum, addition, additional, adjunct, adjuvant, adscititious, adventitious, ancillary, appendage, appurtenance, appurtenant, ascititious, assistant, assisting, auxiliary, casual, circumstantial, collateral, contingency, contingent, contributory, dotal, dower, dowered, dowry, endowed, extra, fortuitous, fostering, happenstance, helping, incidental, inessential, instrumental, invested, mere chance, ministerial, ministering, ministrant, minor, nonessential, not-self, nurtural, nutricial, other, pensionary, secondary, serving, stipendiary, subordinate to, subservient, superadded, superaddition, superfluous, supervenient, supplement, supplemental, supplementary, tributary, unessential

ROGET THESAURUS

subsidiary

Utility

N utility, usefulness, efficacy, efficiency, adequacy, service, use, stead, avail, help, applicability, subservience, function, value, worth, money's worth, productiveness, cui bono, utilization, step in the right direction, common weal, commonwealth public good, public interest, utilitarianism, useful, of use, serviceable, proficuous, good for, subservient, conducive, subsidiary, advantageous, profitable, gainful, remunerative, worth one's salt, valuable, prolific, adequate, efficient, efficacious, effective, effectual, expedient, applicable, available, ready, handy, at hand, tangible, commodious, adaptable, of all work, usefully, pro bono publico.

Aid

N aid, aidance, assistance, help, opitulation, succor, support, lift, advance, furtherance, promotion, coadjuvancy, patronage, championship, countenance, favor, interest, advocacy, sustentation, subvention, alimentation, nutrition, nourishment, eutrophy, manna in the wilderness, food, means, ministry, ministration, subministration, accommodation, relief, rescue, help at a dead lift, supernatural aid, deus ex machina, supplies, reinforcements, reenforcements, succors, contingents, recruits, support, adjunct, ally, aiding, auxiliary, adjuvant, helpful, coadjuvant, subservient, ministrant, ancillary, accessory, subsidiary, at one's beck, at one's beck and call, friendly, amicable, favorable, propitious, well-disposed, neighborly, obliging, with the aid, by the aid of, on behalf of, in behalf of, in aid of, in the service of, in the name of, in favor of, in furtherance of, on account of, for the sake of, on the part of, non obstante, Int, help!, save us!, to the rescue!, alterum alterius auxilio eget, God befriend us as our cause is just, at your service.

Servant

N servant, subject, liegeman, servant, retainer, follower, henchman, servitor, domestic, menial, help, lady help, employe, attache, official, retinue, suite, cortege, staff, court, attendant, squire, usher, page, donzel, footboy, train bearer, cup bearer, waiter, lapster, butler, livery servant, lackey, footman, flunky, flunkey, valet, valet de chambre, equerry, groom, jockey, hostler, ostler, tiger, orderly, messenger, cad, gillie, herdsman, swineherd, barkeeper, bartender, bell boy, boots, boy, counterjumper, khansamah, khansaman, khitmutgar, yardman, bailiff, castellan, seneschal, chamberlain, major-domo, groom of the chambers, secretary, under secretary, assistant secretary, clerk, subsidiary, agent, subaltern, underling, understrapper, man, maid, maidservant, handmaid, confidente, lady's maid, abigail, soubrette, amah, biddy, nurse, bonne, ayah, nursemaid, nursery maid, house maid, parlor maid, waiting maid, chamber maid, kitchen maid, scullery maid, femme de chambre, femme fille, camarista, chef de cuisine, cordon bleu, cook, scullion, Cinderella, potwalloper, maid of all work, servant of all work, laundress, bedmaker, journeyman, charwoman, bearer, chokra, gyp (Cambridge), hamal, scout (Oxford), serf, vassal, slave, negro, helot, bondsman, bondswoman, bondslave, ame damnee, odalisque, ryot, adscriptus gleboe, villian, villein, beadsman, bedesman, sizar, pensioner, pensionary, client, dependant, dependent, hanger on, satellite, parasite, led captain, protege, ward, hireling, mercenary, puppet, tool, creature, badge of slavery, bonds, in the train of, in one's pay, in one's employ, at one's call, in bonds.

Tendency

N tendency, aptness, aptitude, proneness, proclivity, bent, turn, tone, bias, set, leaning to, predisposition, inclination, propensity, susceptibility, conatus, nisus, liability, quality, nature, temperament, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, cast, vein, grain, humor, mood, drift, conduciveness, conducement, applicability, subservience, tending, conducive, working towards, in a fair way to, calculated to, liable, subservient, useful, subsidiary, for, whither.