Usually means: Making secondary or less important.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word subordinating:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. subordinating: Merriam-Webster
  2. subordinating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. subordinating: Vocabulary.com
  4. subordinating: Wordnik
  5. subordinating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. subordinating: Wiktionary
  7. subordinating: Dictionary.com
  8. subordinating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Subordinating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Subordinating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. subordinating: FreeDictionary.org
  12. subordinating: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. subordinating: TheFreeDictionary.com

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