All 9 Uses
subordinate
in
A Passage to India
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- He began: "Dear Sir,—At your express command I have hastened as a subordinate should—" and then stopped.†
Chpt 2
- I am just a subordinate, my time is of no value, the verandah is good enough for an Indian, yes, yes, let him stand, and Mrs. Callendar takes my carriage and cuts me dead ....†
Chpt 2
- Ronny, he told them, was stage-managing in place of Major Callendar, whom some native subordinate or other had let down, and doing it very well; then he turned to Ronny's other merits, and in quiet, decisive tones said much that was flattering.†
Chpt 3
- If the Major heard I was disliked by any native subordinate of mine, I should expect him to pass it on to me.†
Chpt 3
- And this did not dispose him any better towards his subordinate.†
Chpt 6
- He did not mean to be rude to the two men, but the only link he could be conscious of with an Indian was the official, and neither happened to be his subordinate.†
Chpt 7
- But the Major assumed either that his subordinates were made of ice, or that they repaired to the Chandrapore bazaars—disgusting ideas both.†
Chpt 9 *
- That a lady, that a young lady engaged to my most valued subordinate—that she—an English girl fresh from England—that I should have lived—" Involved in his own emotions, he broke down.†
Chpt 17
- Ronny did mean that, but he cherished "illusions" about his own subordinates (following the finer traditions of his service here), and he liked to maintain that his old Das really did possess moral courage of the Public School brand.†
Chpt 24
Definitions:
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(1)
(subordinate) less important or subservient; or to rank as such
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)