adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
role
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Another is of women always taking the more subservient roles in home and work situations.
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After marriage, she has no wish to leave him but, as his wife, can not accept her subservient role .
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That support should not maintain institutions in a client or subservient role .
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Both exhibitions are primarily to do with art, with scholarship playing a subservient role .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The waiter had an excessively subservient manner that made us very uncomfortable.
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What she hated about being a nurse was having to be so subservient to doctors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Away from the staff, the subservient prisoner will say what he really thinks.
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But as I have shown, the function of grammar depends upon its being subservient to lexis.
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I have yet to hear of any document that says that people are subservient to the government.
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Indeed she is such a kind and caring person that colleagues have questioned whether she is sometimes too subservient to her officials.
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That is not to say that Parliament was subservient .
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The truly subservient prisoner is respected by no-one, staff or inmates.
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Then we were off and running with subfreezing temperatures, submerging boats in the water, subservient , subterranean.
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This makes them subservient to a moral objective which may be unattainable.