subordinating
subordinating — verb
- subordinatingpresent simple I / you / we / they
- subordinatings3rd person singular
- subordinatinging-ing form
- subordinatingedpast simple
1. to treat someone or something as less important or valuable than another person
to treat someone or something as less important or valuable than another person or thing, so that the other person or thing receives more attention or power
Her personal life has been subordinated to her career for the past ten years.
passive: subordinated to [something]
Zuri worried that her team's ideas were being subordinated to the marketing department's sales targets.
subordinated to [something] with passive progressive
Henry refused to subordinate his personal principles to political pressure during the election campaign.
The hospital board subordinated patient safety to cost-cutting measures, angering the nursing staff.
- prioritise
to treat something as more important
- elevate
to raise to a higher position or level of importance
文法句型
subordinate + [noun/pronoun] + to + [noun/pronoun]
用法筆記
Frequently used in the passive voice (be subordinated to). The object placed in the less important role typically comes between 'subordinate' and 'to'.
常見錯誤
subordinating — adjective
- subordinatingpositive
- more subordinatingcomparative
- most subordinatingsuperlative
1. describing a word that links a dependent clause to the rest of the sentence and
describing a word that links a dependent clause to the rest of the sentence and shows how the two parts relate to each other
"Because" is a subordinating conjunction that explains why something happens in a sentence.
common subordinating conjunction: because
"Although Kasia was tired, she finished her work" — here "although" is a subordinating conjunction.
subordinating conjunction at the start of a sentence
Adina's teacher asked the class to find all subordinating conjunctions, like "since" and "while."
"Unless" is a subordinating conjunction for conditions, as in "Unless Mei studies, she will not pass."
- subordinative
a rarer synonym used mostly in technical linguistics writing
- coordinating
describes conjunctions that connect equal grammatical units (and, but, or)
文法句型
subordinating + conjunction
subordinating + word
用法筆記
This term is most commonly used in the phrase 'subordinating conjunction.' Subordinating conjunctions (e.g., because, although, while, since, unless, if, when) connect a dependent (subordinate) clause to a main clause. They differ from coordinating conjunctions (e.g., and, but, or), which connect two grammatically equal units.