subsidiary
COMPANY OWNED AND/OR CONTROLLED BY ANOTHER COMPANY
Subsidiaries; Wholly-owned subsidiary; Subsidiary company; Wholly owned subsidiary; Subsidaries; Subsidary; Wholly-owned subsidiaries; Wholly owned subsidiaries; Affiliated company; Subsidiarie; Wholly-owned company; Wholly-owned; Wholly owned; Subsidiary companies; Wholly Owned Subsidiary; Captive company; Captive corporation; Captive companies; Wholly owned company; Wholly-Owned Subsidiary; Daughter company; Child company; Subsidiary Company
(subsidiaries)
1.
A subsidiary or a subsidiary company is a company which is part of a larger and more important company. (BUSINESS)
...British Asia Airways, a subsidiary of British Airways.
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2.
If something is subsidiary, it is less important than something else with which it is connected.
The economics ministry has increasingly played a subsidiary role to the finance ministry.
= secondary
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