(~d)
1.
If someone is your ~, they have a less important position than you in the organization that you both work for.
Haig tended not to seek guidance from ~s...
? superior
N-COUNT: oft poss N
2.
Someone who is ~ to you has a less important position than you and has to obey you.
Sixty of his ~ officers followed his example...
Women were regarded as ~ to free men.
? superior
ADJ: oft ADJ to n
3.
Something that is ~ to something else is less important than the other thing.
It was an art in which words were ~ to images.
ADJ: oft ADJ to n
4.
If you ~ something to another thing, you regard it or treat it as less important than the other thing.
He was both willing and able to ~ all else to this aim.
VERB: V n to n
subordination
...the social subordination of women.
N-UNCOUNT: oft N of/to n