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.
'subsidiary' example sentence:
The clothing business was transferred to a subsidiary.
BBN is a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon Company.
Electric Boat is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics.
Asda, a subsidiary of the equally gerontophile Wal-Mart, is Britain’s biggest employer of over-50s.
A parent-child relationship describes a hierarchical association such as a subsidiary or division.
Employees of the subsidiary would have military experience and top security clearances.
The purchaser and subsidiary then play, in effect, as a team, though the purchaser is in charge.
Shares in the subsidiary have fallen almost 80%.
That question, in turn, breaks down into a number of subsidiary questions.
The Boston-owned software company became a wholly-owned subsidiary of IBM.
The company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of a large multinational.
The marketing department has always played a subsidiary role to the sales department.
The COP may establish such subsidiary bodies as are necessary to achieve the objective of the Convention.
The ranks are maintained by Alexa, a web traffic tracking subsidiary of Amazon.
Perhaps it will sell a troubled subsidiary elsewhere, maybe to Russia.
Gaisler will operate as a subsidiary of Aeroflex Colorado Springs.
He was posted abroad to work in a subsidiary for two years.
But within AIG, an upstart entrepreneurial subsidiary was booming.
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.
Opel is the German subsidiary of General Motors America, GM Europe is a window.
These subsidiary COINS were not money, but money-substitutes.
Its charter business, operated largely by its Lauda Air subsidiary, also could be cut by half.
BNSF became a subsidiary of Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway Inc in February 2010.
Or, most likely, spin it off into a subsidiary and let Motorola return to the public markets.
Ledger includes general ledger, subsidiary ledger, cash book, and petty cash book.
WM Financial Services is a subsidiary of Washington Mutual.
