Category:Subsidiary

Sub*sid"i*a*ry, a. Etym: [l. subsidiarius: cf. F. subsidiaire. See Subsidy.]

1. Furnishing aid; assisting; auxiliary; helping; tributary; Especially, aiding in an inferior position or capacity; as, a Subsidiary stream. Chief ruler and principal head everywhere, not suffragant and Subsidiary. Florio. They constituted a useful subsidiary testimony of another state of Existence. Coleridge.

2. Of or pertaining to a subsidy; constituting a subsidy; being a Part of, or of the nature of, a subsidy; as, subsidiary payments to An ally. George the second relied on his subsidiary treaties. Ld. Mahon.

Subsidiary Sub*sid"i*a*ry, n.; pl. Subsidiaries (.

Defn: one who, or that which, contributes aid or additional supplies; An assistant; an auxiliary. Hammond.