SUBSERVIENT


Meaning of SUBSERVIENT in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

role

Another is of women always taking the more subservient roles in home and work situations.

After marriage, she has no wish to leave him but, as his wife, can not accept her subservient role .

That support should not maintain institutions in a client or subservient role .

Both exhibitions are primarily to do with art, with scholarship playing a subservient role .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The waiter had an excessively subservient manner that made us very uncomfortable.

What she hated about being a nurse was having to be so subservient to doctors.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Away from the staff, the subservient prisoner will say what he really thinks.

But as I have shown, the function of grammar depends upon its being subservient to lexis.

I have yet to hear of any document that says that people are subservient to the government.

Indeed she is such a kind and caring person that colleagues have questioned whether she is sometimes too subservient to her officials.

That is not to say that Parliament was subservient .

The truly subservient prisoner is respected by no-one, staff or inmates.

Then we were off and running with subfreezing temperatures, submerging boats in the water, subservient , subterranean.

This makes them subservient to a moral objective which may be unattainable.

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