Both Uses
subordinate
in
The Phantom of the Opera
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- M. Richard glared at his subordinate, who thenceforth made it his business to display a face of utter consternation.†
Chpt 4 *
- Moncharmin opened it automatically, seemed hardly to recognize Mercier, his business-manager, exchanged a few words with him, without knowing what he was saying and, with an unconscious movement, put the safety-pin, for which he had no further use, into the hands of his bewildered subordinate ... Chapter XVIII — The Commissary, The Viscount and the Persian.†
Chpt 17
Definitions:
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(1)
(subordinate) less important or subservient; or to rank as such
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)