- If a company belongs to another company, then the owned company is a subsidiary. When a large company bought your small business, you became a subsidiary. It still hurts to call them the parent company, since you publish novels and they make toilet paper.
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- adj. 附属的;辅助的
- n. 子公司
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1. subsidiary information
辅助资料
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2. a subsidiary matter
附带问题
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3. I'm taking History as a subsidiary subject.
我把历史课作为辅修科目。
- subsidiary (adj.) 1540s, from Latin subsidiarius "belonging to a reserve, of a reserve, reserved; serving to assist or supplement," from subsidium "a help, aid, relief, troops in reserve" (see subsidy). As a noun, c. 1600, "subsidiary thing." In Latin the word was used as a noun meaning "the reserve."
sub·sid·iary AWL / səbˈsɪdiəri ; NAmE səbˈsɪdieri / adjective , noun subsidiary subsidiaries adjective 1 subsidiary(to sth) connected with sth but less important than it 辅助的;附带的;次要的 SYN additional ◆ subsidiary information 辅助资料 ◆ a subsidiary matter 附带问题 ◆ ( BrE) I'm taking History as a subsidiary subject (= one that is not studied in as great depth as a main subject). 我把历史课作为辅修科目。 2 (of a business company 公司 ) owned or controlled by another company 附属的;隶属的 noun ( plural sub·sid·iaries ) a business company that is owned or controlled by another larger company 附属公司;子公司 sub·sid·iary / səbˈsɪdiəri ; NAmE səbˈsɪdieri /
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