Synonyms for subordination
sub·or·di·na·tion

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1. subordinationnoun

   the state of being subordinate to something

   Synonyms:
   mastery, hyponymy

   Antonyms:
   insubordination

2. hyponymy, subordinationnoun

   the semantic relation of being subordinate or belonging to a lower rank or class

   Synonyms:
   mastery, hyponymy

   Antonyms:
   insubordination

3. subordinationnoun

   the grammatical relation of a modifying word or phrase to its head

   Synonyms:
   mastery, hyponymy

   Antonyms:
   insubordination

4. subordinationnoun

   the quality of obedient submissiveness

   Synonyms:
   mastery, hyponymy

   Antonyms:
   insubordination

5. mastery, subordinationnoun

   the act of mastering or subordinating someone

   Synonyms:
   mastery, command, control, hyponymy, supremacy, domination

   Antonyms:
   insubordination

Matched Categories

1. • Dependence
   • Domination
   • Grammatical Relation
   • Semantic Relation
   • Submissiveness

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1. subordinationnoun

   Synonyms:
   subjection, subserviency

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1. List of paraphrases for "subordination":

   decommissioning, waiver, subjugation

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How to use subordination in a sentence?

1. Lopez Obrador:

   I want a friendly relationship with the government of the United States, but not one of subordination. Mexico is a free country, it is a sovereign nation, we will not be subject to any foreign government.

2. Alexander Aitken:

   I can’t see there being much willingness to give a fairer outcome to offshore bondholders rather than onshore banks, let alone house buyers and people who have lent onshore through the personal loan structures, of course legally there is also structural subordination from being offshore, which means lenders to Evergrande’s onshore subsidiaries get paid before lenders to the parent company or any offshore debt issuer.

3. Marquis de Vauvenargues:

   It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its soverign law is subordination and dependence.

4. John Adams:

   [D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.

5. Henry Kissinger:

   The European Union must recognize that its bureaucratic dilatoriness and subordination of the strategic element to domestic politics in negotiating Ukraine’s relationship to Europe contributed to turning a negotiation into a crisis. Foreign policy is the art of establishing priorities.