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subsidiary company, subsidiary

n. a company that is completely controlled by another company

subordinate, subsidiary, underling, foot soldier

n. an assistant subject to the authority or control of another

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auxiliary, subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary

adj. functioning in a supporting capacity; "the main library and its auxiliary branches"

branch, subdivision, arm

n. a division of some larger or more complex organization; "a branch of Congress"; "botany is a branch of biology"; "the Germanic branch of Indo-European languages"

division

n. an administrative unit in government or business

attendant, attender, tender

n. someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another

aide, auxiliary

n. someone who acts as assistant

menial

n. a domestic servant

chaperon, chaperone

n. one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people

quick study, sponge

n. someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily; "she soaks up foreign languages like a sponge"

flunky, flunkey, stooge, yes-man

n. a person of unquestioning obedience

lackey, flunky, flunkey

n. a male servant (especially a footman)

crawler, creeper

n. a person who crawls or creeps along the ground

employee

n. a worker who is hired to perform a job

hack, drudge, hacker

n. one who works hard at boring tasks

junior

n. the younger of two persons; "she is two years my junior"

slave

n. someone entirely dominated by some influence or person; "a slave to fashion"; "a slave to cocaine"; "his mother was his abject slave"

slave

n. someone who works as hard as a slave

national, subject

n. a person who owes allegiance to that nation; "a monarch has a duty to his subjects"

Liege, Luik

n. city in eastern Belgium; largest French-speaking city in Belgium

adjunct

n. a person who is an assistant or subordinate to another

charwoman, char, cleaning woman, cleaning lady, woman

n. a human female employed to do housework; "the char will clean the carpet"; "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write"

woman

n. a female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man; "he was faithful to his woman"

attendant, attender, attendee, meeter

n. a person who is present and participates in a meeting; "he was a regular attender at department meetings"; "the gathering satisfied both organizers and attendees"

woman, adult female

n. an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted"

man, adult male

n. an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus"

workman, workingman, working man, working person

n. an employee who performs manual or industrial labor

worker

n. a person who works at a specific occupation; "he is a good worker"

hired hand, hand, hired man

n. a hired laborer on a farm or ranch; "the hired hand fixed the railing"; "a ranch hand"

agent, federal agent

n. any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau

mouthpiece, mouth

n. a spokesperson (as a lawyer)

spare

adj. kept in reserve especially for emergency use; "a reserve supply of food"; "a spare tire"; "spare parts"

extra, additional

adj. further or added; "called for additional troops"; "need extra help"; "an extra pair of shoes"

accessory, adjunct, ancillary, adjuvant, appurtenant, auxiliary

adj. furnishing added support; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other"

more, further, additional

adj. further or added; "called for additional troops"; "need extra help"; "an extra pair of shoes"

supplementary, supplemental

adj. added to complete or make up a deficiency; "produced supplementary volumes"

inferior

adj. of or characteristic of low rank or importance

adscititious

adj. supplemental; not part of the real or essential nature of a thing; "adscititious vowels"

minor, modest, small, small-scale, pocket-size, pocket-sized

adj. limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country"

alternate, alternative, substitute

adj. serving or used in place of another; "an alternative plan"

collateral

adj. accompany, concomitant; "collateral target damage from a bombing run"

secondhand

adj. derived from what is primary or original; not firsthand; "a secondhand report"; "a secondhand account of a memory of something once read"; "most of our knowledge is secondhand"

second-string

adj. being a replacement or substitute for a regular member of a team; "a second-string pitcher"

tributary

adj. paying tribute; "a tributary colony"

utility(a), substitute(a)

adj. capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team; "a utility infielder"

vicarious

adj. suffered or done by one person as a substitute for another; "vicarious atonement"

superior, higher-up, superordinate

n. one of greater rank or station or quality

primary

adj. of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary; "primary goals"; "a primary effect"; "primary sources"; "a primary interest"

first

adj. preceding all others in time or space or degree; "the first house on the right"; "the first day of spring"; "his first political race"; "her first baby"; "the first time"; "the first meetings of the new party"; "the first phase of his training"

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