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subservient | American Dictionary

subservient
adjective
 disapprovingus/səbˈsɜr·vi·ənt/
willing to do what other people want, or considering your wishes as less important than those of other people:
In the past, women were viewed as subservient to men.

subservience

noun[ U ]us/səbˈsɜr·vi·əns/
disapproving
Your subservience to your boss disgusts me.

subservient | Business English

subservient
adjective
uk /səbˈsɜːviənt/us
willing to do what another person, organization, etc. wants, and considering your aims or wishes to be less important than those of others:
a subservient position/role
subservient to sb/sthCritics say the Federal Aviation Agency remains subservient to the airline industry.

Examples of subservient

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And it is not just that music has traditionally won, but along with it, a dramatic and representational vocabulary subservient to the music.
Voluntary agencies were not independent and self-determined actors, but were legitimised by government only in so far as they acknowledged their subservient position.
At the same time they overlay and reinforce a pre-existing musical binary - the primacy of the lead vocal over the ' subservient' backing chorus - instrumental accompaniment.
One result is that programmes have kept women in subservient and separated roles, relative to male laity at all levels of the church.
By enacting the subservient role with the required deferential manners they could to an extent assert their interests.
People commonly regard monism as a doctrine in which parts are merged into and subservient before the whole - a kind of metaphysical totalitarianism.
One may describe the role of axioms here as the subservient one of fixing the range of variables entering into the explicit constructions.
As she had lived in habits of familiarity with the first nobility, she conceived the idea of rendering their patronage subservient to her scheme.
Unfortunately, these healthier, pleasanter lives are lives that do not fit with her sense of the properly subservient role of women.
The authors informed us that something has 'an interior character that is served by but is not subservient to the principal container'.
And yet she abjured self-indulgence, being ever-attentive and subservient to the needs of her family.
The descriptive aspect of exoticism, initially subservient to the decor, is integrated into the poetry itself.
At the other extreme, subservient legislatures acquiesce to the preferences of dominant presidents.
English culture was by contrast immensely patriarchal, embracing a rigid gender hierarchy in which women were subservient to men.
A peculiar organizational culture emerges in which each individual within the rigid hierarchy of authority relations becomes subservient to those above while dominating those below.
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