subordinatenoun

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Organizations - position & status
ambassador
anti-elite
anti-elitist
apparatchik
back seat
counterpart
fish
grassroots
high-ranking
honorary
junior
opposite number
rank
reach
spokesperson
super-elite
superboard
superiority
thane
titularly
superordinate
adjective
uk /ˌsuː.pərˈɔː.dɪ.nət/ us /ˌsuː.pɚˈɔːr.dən.ət/
including a group of things or people under or within it: （类型、职位或类别等）高等级的
Members of a team or a religion experience emotional wellbeing from being committed to a superordinate goal.一个团队或宗教的成员因致力于高远的目标而体验到情感方面的幸福。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Groups of people
affinity group
alliance
an
anti-gang
assemblage
factionally
family
federation
federative
First Nation
line (someone) up
mafia
mob
online community
peer group
phalanx
posse
public
scratch
syndicate

Examples of superordinate

superordinate
It is normally done as part of some larger project, some superordinate task.
Superordinate constructs were extracted to identify the commonality distribution and to avoid intensive processing.
If the superordinate task is simply to test an automatic disambiguation system, this inequality need not be troublesome.
It transpires, then, that there exists a general principle whereby elements at the lower level differ in their affinity to their superordinate unit.
In today's language-speak taxonomy, the term "variety" is the superordinate and "dialect" the subordinate.
The latter imposes a substantive condition on the well-formedness of a syllable, which is superordinate to segments in prosodic structure.
Team structures exhibit behaviors that serve functions in accordance with superordinate goals.
The presence of the copula was required only when a superordinate was not followed by a relative clause.
Both definitions have a full relative clause, and use the nominal complement marker (some)thing as a dummy superordinate.
Among the semantic type errors coordinate, superordinate and associative errors were included.
Because of this assumption, the present experiments tested only a limited range of items within superordinate boundaries.
This is true for all time-varying features, both on the micro-level and on the more superordinate level of the entire object.
They are aware of a variety of superordinate style concepts that cover different subsets of the space of possible garments.
A verb is a word but a phrase is a superordinate, syntactic unit.
Thus colours may have no single superordinate, a fact that is perhaps unsurprising given that colours can be produced via the mixing of other colours.
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