Usually means: Dependent part of a sentence.
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  1. subordinate clause: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. subordinate clause: Merriam-Webster
  3. subordinate clause: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. subordinate clause: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. subordinate clause: Collins English Dictionary
  6. subordinate clause: Vocabulary.com
  7. subordinate clause: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. subordinate-clause, subordinate clause: Wiktionary
  9. subordinate clause: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. subordinate clause: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. subordinate clause: Dictionary.com
  12. Subordinate clause: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. subordinate clause: Rhymezone
  14. subordinate clause: FreeDictionary.org
  15. subordinate clause: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. subordinate clause: TheFreeDictionary.com

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(Note: See subordinate_clauses as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (subordinate clause)

noun:  (grammar) A clause that cannot stand alone as a sentence but rather functions as either a noun, adjective, or adverb within a sentence, having been cued by any of various introductory words that subordinate it (complementize it).

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