subsidiary company
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4.6
- noun
- /səbˈsɪdiˌɛri ˈkʌmpəni/
- Specialized
:
empresa subsidiaria
- The conglomerate oversees and manages a number of subsidiary companies.
Examples
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We traced the vehicle to a subsidiary company of the Osterberg group.
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A subsidiary company that develops exploration leases.
Blog text (11) -
"Overseeing that activity requires a specialist board, and the investment subsidiary company allows that.
Blog text (31) -
These documents brim with details of complex financial maneuvers and a network of subsidiary companies.
Academic text (2007) -
By pumping $50 billion into GM and all the subsidiary companies that fed the auto industry, he would ensure that these states would vote for him again in 2012.
Blog text (8) -
People can do almost anything through the Internet, and their ability to do so should not be limited simply because broadband providers want more profits either through prioritizing their own subsidiary companies or by charging edge providers money to distribute their products and services.
Academic text (2016) -
On Wednesday, Murray also laid off 54 people at American Coal, one of his subsidiary companies, and 102 at Utah American Energy, blaming a "war on coal" by the Obama administration.
Blog text (15) -
The conglomerate oversees and manages a number of subsidiary companies.
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We traced the vehicle to a subsidiary company of the Osterberg group.
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The marketing campaign has been in development at a subsidiary company for weeks now.
Synonyms
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4.1
A person or organization connected to a larger group like a company
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5.9
A company controlled by another company, often owned by a larger firm
How Dependent
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'subsidiary' already denotes a company controlled by a parent and 'company' names the organization, so the combination straightforwardly means a company owned/controlled by another. This is a common noun-modifier pattern cross-linguistically and therefore a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily understand the phrase.
Etymology
Subsidiary company comes from the image of a small subsidiary or 'helper' company standing beside a larger parent firm to support it. Because it is 'owned or controlled' by the parent, the phrase now means a company that belongs to and is run by another company.