All 7 Uses
subordinate
in
Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
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- The lama did not wake till the evening life of the city had begun with lamp-lighting and the return of white-robed clerks and subordinates from the Government offices.†
Chpt 1 *
- They were sons of subordinate officials in the Railway, Telegraph, and Canal Services; of warrant-officers, sometimes retired and sometimes acting as commanders-in-chief to a feudatory Rajah's army; of captains of the Indian Marine Government pensioners, planters, Presidency shopkeepers, and missionaries.†
Chpt 7
- His name does not appear in the year's batch of those who entered for the subordinate Survey of India, but against it stand the words 'removed on appointment.'†
Chpt 9
- I am not in the habit offeecially of carrying such gauds to subordinates, but'—he giggled—'your case is noted as exceptional on the books.†
Chpt 10
- It is strictly unoffeecial of course, but convenient for subordinates.†
Chpt 10
- 'You are subordinate to me departmentally at present.'†
Chpt 12
- You are offeecially subordinate to me, but I shall embody your name in my verbal report.†
Chpt 15
Definitions:
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(1)
(subordinate) less important or subservient; or to rank as such
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)