Word Meanings - SUBSIDIARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Furnishing aid; assisting; auxiliary; helping; tributary; especially, aiding in an inferior position or capacity; as, a subsidiary stream. Chief ruler and principal head everywhere, not suffragant and subsidiary. Florio. They constituted
Additional info about word: SUBSIDIARY
1. Furnishing aid; assisting; auxiliary; helping; tributary; especially, aiding in an inferior position or capacity; as, a subsidiary stream. Chief ruler and principal head everywhere, not suffragant and subsidiary. Florio. They constituted a useful subsidiary testimony of another state of existence. Coleridge. 2. Of or pertaining to a subsidy; constituting a subsidy; being a part of, or of the nature of, a subsidy; as, subsidiary payments to an ally. George the Second relied on his subsidiary treaties. Ld. Mahon.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SUBSIDIARY)
- Auxiliary
- Helpful
- abetting
- aiding
- accessory
- promotive
- conducive
- assistant
- ancillary
- assisting
- subsidiary
- helping
Related words: (words related to SUBSIDIARY)
- ASSISTANTLY
In a manner to give aid. - AIDANCE
Aid. Aidance 'gainst the enemy. Shak. - AIDFUL
Helpful. Bp. Hall. - ASSISTANCE
1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak. 2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. Wat Tyler killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance, - ASSIST
To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor. Assist me, knight. I am undone! Shak. Syn. -- To help; aid; second; back; support; relieve; succor; befriend; sustain; favor. See Help. - ABETTAL
Abetment. - ASSISTER
An assistant; a helper. - CONDUCIVENESS
The quality of conducing. - ABETTER; ABETTOR
One who abets; an instigator of an offense or an offender. Note: The form abettor is the legal term and also in general use. Syn. -- Abettor, Accessory, Accomplice. These words denote different degrees of complicity in some deed or crime. An abettor - ANCILLARY ADMINISTRATION
An administration subordinate to, and in aid of, the primary or principal administration of an estate. - AID-MAJOR
The adjutant of a regiment. - ASSISTLESS
Without aid or help. Pope. - AIDLESS
Helpless; without aid. Milton. - HELPLESS
1. Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant. How shall I then your helpless fame defend Pope. 2. Beyond help; irremediable. Some helpless disagreement or dislike, either - ASSISTOR
A assister. - PROMOTIVE
Tending to advance, promote, or encourage. Hume. - AID-DE-CAMP
An officer selected by a general to carry orders, also to assist or represent him in correspondence and in directing movements. - AID
To support, either by furnishing strength or means in coöperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist. You speedy helpers . . . Appear and aid me in this enterprise. Shak. Syn. -- To help; assist; - ASSISTIVE
Lending aid, helping. - HELPER
One who, or that which, helps, aids, assists, or relieves; as, a lay helper in a parish. Thou art the helper of the fatherless. Ps. x. 14. Compassion . . . oftentimes a helper of evils. Dr. H. More. - HANDMAID; HANDMAIDEN
A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant. - SPAID
See SPADE - DAYMAID
A dairymaid. - SAID
imp. & p. p. of Say. - MERMAID
A fabled marine creature, typically represented as having the upper part like that of a woman, and the lower like a fish; a sea nymph, sea woman, or woman fish. Note: Chaucer uses this word as equivalent to the siren of the ancients. Mermaid fish - FORESAID
Mentioned before; aforesaid. - WAID
Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down. Tusser. - HAIDUCK
Formerly, a mercenary foot soldier in Hungary, now, a halberdier of a Hungarian noble, or an attendant in German or - MAIDENLINESS
The quality of being maidenly; the behavior that becomes a maid; modesty; gentleness. - RAID
1. A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray. Marauding chief! his sole delight. The moonlight raid, the morning fight. Sir W. Scott. There are permanent - BRAID
and fro, to weave; akin. to Icel. breg, D. breiden to knit, OS. 1. To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait. Braid your locks with rosy twine. Milton. 2. To mingle, or to bring - HAIDINGERITE
A mineral consisting of the arseniate of lime; -- so named in honor of W. Haidinger, of Vienna. - STAIDNESS
The quality or state of being staid; seriousness; steadiness; sedateness; regularity; -- the opposite of wildness, or Ant: levity. If sometimes he appears too gray, yet a secret gracefulness of youth accompanies his writings, though the staidness