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.
