subsidiary

Definition:
1. An assistant subject to the authority or control of another.
2. A company that is completely controlled by another company.
3. Relating to something that is added but is not essential.
4. Functioning in a subsidiary or supporting capacity.

Use 'subsidiary' in a sentence:

• 1. The clothing business was transferred to a subsidiary.
• 2. BBN is a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon Company.
• 3. Electric Boat is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics.
• 4. Asda, a subsidiary of the equally gerontophile Wal-Mart, is Britain’s biggest employer of over-50s.
• 5. A parent-child relationship describes a hierarchical association such as a subsidiary or division.
• 6. Employees of the subsidiary would have military experience and top security clearances.
• 7. The purchaser and subsidiary then play, in effect, as a team, though the purchaser is in charge.
• 8. Shares in the subsidiary have fallen almost 80%.
• 9. That question, in turn, breaks down into a number of subsidiary questions.
• 10. The Boston-owned software company became a wholly-owned subsidiary of IBM.
• 11. The company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of a large multinational.
• 12. The marketing department has always played a subsidiary role to the sales department.
• 13. The COP may establish such subsidiary bodies as are necessary to achieve the objective of the Convention.
• 14. The ranks are maintained by Alexa, a web traffic tracking subsidiary of Amazon.
• 15. Perhaps it will sell a troubled subsidiary elsewhere, maybe to Russia.
• 16. Gaisler will operate as a subsidiary of Aeroflex Colorado Springs.
• 17. He was posted abroad to work in a subsidiary for two years.
• 18. But within AIG, an upstart entrepreneurial subsidiary was booming.
• 19. Parking rates will be attracted about $400 monthly or $25 per day, according to Ari Milstein, the director of planning for Automation Parking Systems, which is the U.S. subsidiary of a German company.
• 20. Opel is the German subsidiary of General Motors America, GM Europe is a window.
• 21. These subsidiary COINS were not money, but money-substitutes.
• 22. Its charter business, operated largely by its Lauda Air subsidiary, also could be cut by half.
• 23. BNSF became a subsidiary of Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway Inc in February 2010.
• 24. Or, most likely, spin it off into a subsidiary and let Motorola return to the public markets.
• 25. Ledger includes general ledger, subsidiary ledger, cash book, and petty cash book.
• 26. WM Financial Services is a subsidiary of Washington Mutual.
• 27. Subsidiary or Competitor?