subordinate
adjective
• lower in rank or position.
• "his subordinate officers"
subordinate
noun
• a person under the authority or control of another within an organization.
• "he was mild-mannered, especially with his subordinates"
Similar:
junior,
assistant,
second,
second in command,
number two,
right-hand man/woman,
deputy,
aide,
adjutant,
subaltern,
apprentice,
underling,
flunkey,
minion,
lackey,
mate,
inferior,
sidekick,
henchman,
second fiddle,
man/girl Friday,
subordinate
verb
• treat or regard as of lesser importance than something else.
• "practical considerations were subordinated to political expediency"
Origin:
late Middle English: from medieval Latin subordinatus ‘placed in an inferior rank’, from Latin sub- ‘below’ + ordinare ‘ordain’.
