subordinate role

collocation in English

meaningsofsubordinateandrole

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subordinate
adjective
uk
/səˈbɔː.dɪ.nət/us
/səˈbɔːr.dən.ət/
having a lower or less ...
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role
noun[C]
uk
/rəʊl/us
/roʊl/
the position or purpose that someone or something has in a situation, organization, society, ...
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(Definition ofsubordinateandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsubordinate role

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In 1956-60 they demanded a larger, lesssubordinaterolefor indigenous business in commerce and industry.
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Good works that could not save the sinner could not also perform thesubordinateroleof supplying evidence that the sinner had been justified.
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In the latter case, rural lower classes seem to have played a moresubordinaterolein the electoral process than urban lower classes.
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The urban core with its architectural monuments plays only asubordinaterolethat occasionally gives orientation.
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Questions of aesthetics played asubordinaterole.
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Theory is generated in order to illuminate practical aspects of the findings; but theoretical understanding has asubordinateroleto the empirical research and to the project as a whole.
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Why, then, would a state submit to asubordinaterolethat provides it with less control over the terms and scope of an intelligence sharing agreement?
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Though the term was also an explicit _ _ critique of the previous moral behavior of anyone so labeled, it did not imply a politicallysubordinaterolewithin a specific community.
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Women were seen to have an inferior,subordinaterole.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Although health policy plays asubordinaterole, positive intervention is called for on our part.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
If they do not, they will be relegated to asubordinaterolein the eyes of the services and their allies.
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In other words, women are reverting to their traditionalsubordinateroleof being the property of the male.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
This is not to mention thesubordinaterolewhich the rapporteur unfortunately confers on national parliaments.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
They believed in their magnificent cavalry, just as our people believe in tanks, and relegated infantry to asubordinaterole.
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We have insisted that the levy should play asubordinateroleto price cuts.
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Safety issues play only asubordinaterole.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
This responsibility must not be disputed or otherwise jeopardised, and so there must be clear guidelines for the agency, which needs to play asubordinaterole.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
This is a technical matter, and electricity supply should be arranged by technicians and by managers with technical experience, rather than by administrators with technicians in asubordinaterole.
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On both occasions, he concluded that it would not be appropriate for the security services to be given more than a strictly limited andsubordinaterole.
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For me, feminism is about seeing and acknowledging the fact that women often have asubordinaterolein society and being prepared to do something about this.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
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