I was stabbed in the back by my subordinate.

A man who is poor, but independent of other people, is only dominated by his needs. A man who is rich, but dependent, is subordinate to another person, or to several.

From the moment Mary became the boss, she made herself very unpopular with her subordinates.

The sentence has got too long again." "Then just take out a few of the subordinate clauses."

All the other issues are subordinate to this one.

The cat is, above all things, a dramatist; its life is lived in an endless romance though the drama is played out on quite another stage than our own, and we only enter into it as subordinate characters, as stage managers, or rather stage carpenters.

Senior executives spend a lot of time training their subordinates.

A conjunction is a word that connects a subordinate clause to a main clause.

Tom is my subordinate.

He's only a subordinate.