(n.) A partner or associate in some civil or ecclesiastical office or employment. It is never used of partners in trade or manufactures.
(v.t & i.) To unite or associate with another or with others.
Example Sentences:
(1) For his lone, perilous journey that defied the US occupation authorities, Burchett was pilloried, not least by his embedded colleagues.
(2) One of the most interesting aspects of the shadow cabinet elections, not always readily interpreted because of the bizarre process of alliances of convenience, is whether his colleagues are ready to forgive and forget his long years as Brown's representative on earth.
(3) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
(4) Only one part of the theory of Alajouanine and colleagues has been confirmed by our experiments for our results have shown that there is a very close correlation between semantic paraphasias and disorders of semantic differentiation whilst no correlation can be found between phonemic paraphasias and disturbances in auditory phonemic discrimination.
(5) The most difficult thing I've dealt with at work is ... the terminal illness of a valued colleague.
(6) Cooper, who was briefly a social worker in Los Angeles, also suggests working hard to build a rapport with colleagues in hotdesking situations.
(7) Maguire's colleagues rushed to her side, some administering first aid while others held her attacker, witnesses said.
(8) And any Labour commitment on spending is fatally undermined by their deficit amnesia.” Davey widened the attack on the Tories, following a public row this week between Clegg and Theresa May over the “snooper’s charter”, by accusing his cabinet colleague Eric Pickles of coming close to abusing his powers by blocking new onshore developments against the wishes of some local councils.
(9) Her success has not been universally welcomed - anonymous colleagues are occasionally quoted in the media portraying her as "ambitious" and "bossy".
(10) The results support Kuiper and colleagues' distinction between concomitant and vulnerability schemas, and help to clarify differences between cognitions that are symptoms or correlates of depression and those that may play a causal role under certain conditions.
(11) In addition to working with hist colleagues on general review and health-policy matters, he also handled issues related to the special needs of children and helped to get third-party benefit packages altered to better suit the treatment needs of children.
(12) According to the report filed by the New York state department of financial services (NYSDFS), when warned by a US colleague about dealings with Iran, a Standard Chartered executive caustically replied: "You f---ing Americans.
(13) In this review, Warner Greene and colleagues discuss recent studies that have revealed an intriguing molecular interplay between two pathogenic human retroviruses, HIV-1 and HTLV-1, and certain cellular genes that normally control T-cell growth.
(14) Puskas, possessed of a left foot of astonishing power, and his team colleagues, Sandor Kocsis and Zoltan Czibor, all found their way to Spain.
(15) The key feature is the physicians' acceptance of the nurse co-ordinator as a colleague.
(16) The models provide structure and methods that are familiar to practicing nurses so that they may begin to work with colleagues and other researchers in the clinical setting.
(17) The pair’s colleague, Baher Mohamed, is ineligible for deportation as he only holds an Egyptian passport.
(18) And as for this job, well, not that I have a choice but … fuck it, I quit.” A stunned colleague then told viewers: “All right we apologise for that … we’ll, we’ll be right back.” The station later apologised to viewers on Twitter: KTVA 11 News (@ktva) Viewers, we sincerely apologize for the inappropriate language used by a KTVA reporter on the air tonight.
(19) My colleague Sean Farrell reported last night that the Scottish government had been looking for a buyer for the site .
(20) It is indispensable to establish a close cooperation between the public health authorities and the private physician, and we therefore wish to sincerely thank all colleagues and Public Health Officers for their collaboration.
Subordinate
Definition:
(a.) Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.
(a.) Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like.
(n.) One who stands in order or rank below another; -- distinguished from a principal.
(v. t.) To place in a lower order or class; to make or consider as of less value or importance; as, to subordinate one creature to another.
(v. t.) To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to subordinate the passions to reason.
Example Sentences:
(1) There were no significant effects of chlordiazepoxide treatment on the behaviour of subordinate rats.
(2) Here we show that the subsequent survival and reproductive success of subordinate female red deer is depressed more by rearing sons than by rearing daughters, whereas the subsequent fitness of dominant females is unaffected by the sex of their present offspring.
(3) Compared to socially dominant females, socially subordinate females had fewer ovulatory menstrual cycles, more cycles with deficient luteal phase plasma progesterone concentrations, increased adrenal weights and increased heart weights.
(4) In none of the constructs were TG sequences folded in a positioned nucleosome, demonstrating that the rotational setting played a subordinate role in the rough positioning in vivo.
(5) Allogrooming was more frequent among subordinates than among dominants and subordinates.
(6) The clashes between the moralistic Levin and his friend Oblonsky, sometimes affectionate, sometimes angry, and Levin's linkage of modernity to Oblonsky's attitudes – that social mores are to be worked around and subordinated to pleasure, that families are base camps for off-base nooky – undermine one possible reading of Anna Karenina , in which Anna is a martyr in the struggle for the modern sexual freedoms that we take for granted, taken down by the hypocritical conservative elite to which she, her lover and her husband belong.
(7) When mice were isolated, no differences were found between the behavior of those that later became alphas and those that became subordinates.
(8) Plasma epinephrine and norepinephrine samples obtained from anesthetized subjects did not differ between dominant and subordinate males.
(9) Existing services and underutilized because of illiteracy, the most important factor, cultural practices, religious practices, and the subordinate status of women.
(10) In the proposed model medicine of catastrophes should consist of organization-methodological centres, regional organs of management and various functional elements, possessed of flexible structure of coordination and subordination.
(11) Results of these studies allow the conclusion, that hypertrophy is a reaction of arterial smooth muscle cells to an increased mechanical load in hypertension which, in turn, is responsible for the thickening of arterial with Hyperplasia - increase in smooth muscle cells' number in the media - played a subordinate role.
(12) Also analogues seem to be the producing of the so-called instinctives as mam(m)a and papa by somewhat older babies which are able to pass over from the babbling into permanent words of the adults' speech in which they persist if used without shifting of sounds since they are produced de novo generation by generation, but they are subordinate to shifting and possible extinction if used in the form of derivatives in the standard language, and some phenomena of the phylogenesis as the survival of less differentiated species contrary to the relatively quick extinction of the highly specialized ones.
(13) The article describes the following results: 1) The majority of those who responded, particularly workers in subordinate positions, were of the opinion that firms, management and co-workers were rather unwilling to accept the physically disabled as competitive and equal employees and colleagues.
(14) Specialty interests cover the whole range of medicine but in most instances are subordinate to the claims of general medicine.
(15) These observations are interpreted in light of behavioral data suggesting that these subordinate males are under sustained social stress.
(16) These data show nonspecific protection against tumor recurrence because of alloimmunization but clearly demonstrate the subordination of any beneficial colon cancer TSA immunotherapeutic effect by contained histocompatibility antigens.
(17) The older mother-adult child relationship may be characterized by a power differential, such that some older mothers feel subordinate to their adult children.
(18) The dominant male in FFF groups displaced subordinates less frequently than did the dominant older male in AFF groups early in the season, but equally frequently later.
(19) In addition to understanding one's subordinates and peers, the effective manager understands the organizational forces that exist in the workplace.
(20) Historically, social work in hospitals has been subordinate to the medical profession.