Subsidiary
English Meaning
Furnishing aid; assisting; auxiliary; helping; tributary; especially, aiding in an inferior position or capacity; as, a subsidiary stream.
- Serving to assist or supplement; auxiliary.
- Secondary in importance; subordinate.
- Of, relating to, or of the nature of a subsidy.
- One that is subsidiary to another.
- A subsidiary company.
- Music A theme subordinate to a main theme or subject.