Both Uses
subordinate
in
The Overcoat, by Gogol
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- When he told her about the affair, she clasped her hands, and said that he must go straight to the district chief of police, for his subordinate would turn up his nose, promise well, and drop the matter there.†
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- But there was no necessity for this, for the half-score of subordinates who formed the entire force of the office were properly afraid; on catching sight of him afar off they left their work and waited, drawn up in line, until he had passed through the room.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(subordinate) less important or subservient; or to rank as such
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)