Usually means: Individuals reporting to higher authority.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word subordinates:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. subordinates: Merriam-Webster
  2. subordinates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. subordinates: Vocabulary.com
  4. Subordinates, subordinate's, subordinates: Wordnik
  5. subordinates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. subordinates: Wiktionary
  7. subordinates: Dictionary.com
  8. subordinates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. subordinates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. subordinates: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. subordinates: Legal dictionary
  3. subordinates: Financial dictionary

(Note: See subordinate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (subordinate)

adjective:  Placed in a lower class, rank, or position.
adjective:  Submissive or inferior to, or controlled by authority.
adjective:  (grammar, of a clause, not comparable) dependent on and either modifying or complementing the main clause
adjective:  Descending in a regular series.
noun:  (countable) One who is subordinate.
noun:  A hyponym.
verb:  (transitive) To make subservient or secondary.
verb:  (transitive, grammar) To embed (a clause) into another clause that is the main one.
verb:  (transitive, finance) To make of lower priority in order of payment in bankruptcy.
verb:  (transitive) To treat (someone) as of less value or importance.
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