[N-COUNT 可数名词]附属公司;子公司 A subsidiary or a subsidiary company is a company which is part of a larger and more important company.
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...British Asia Airways, a subsidiary of British Airways.
英国亚洲航空公司,英国航空公司的子公司
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[ADJ 形容词]辅助的;附带的;次要的 If something is subsidiary, it is less important than something else with which it is connected.
The economics ministry has increasingly played a subsidiary role to the finance ministry.
经济部已经越来越成了财政部的附属了。
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sub·sid·iaryAWL/səbˈsɪdiəri; NAmEsəbˈsɪdieri/
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subsidiarysubsidiariesadjective1subsidiary(to sth) connected with sth but less important than it 辅助的;附带的;次要的SYN
additional
◆subsidiary information辅助资料◆a subsidiary matter附带问题◆( BrE) I'm taking History as a subsidiary subject(= one that is not studied in as great depth as a main subject).我把历史课作为辅修科目。2(of a business company 公司)owned or controlled by another company 附属的;隶属的noun(pluralsub·sid·iaries)a business company that is owned or controlled by another larger company 附属公司;子公司sub·sid·iary/səbˈsɪdiəri; NAmEsəbˈsɪdieri/
a company that is owned or controlled by another larger company: a subsidiary of a US company one of our Japanese subsidiaries► see thesaurus at
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subsidiary1 noun
subsidiary2 adjective
subsidiarysubsidiary2 ●○○AWL adjective formal
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connected with, but less important than, something elseSYN secondary: a subsidiary hypothesissubsidiary to All other issues are subsidiary to this one.
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