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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a subordinate of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is in a lower rank or position within an organization or hierarchy, typically in relation to a superior.
Example: "As a manager, I have several subordinates under my supervision who report directly to me."
Alternatives: "an employee of" or "a junior to".
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Porkin was a subordinate of Litvinenko's in Russia's FSB spy agency.
He was fired by a subordinate of Mr. Moore's after seven weeks.
The temenggong, however, was a subordinate of his cousin Abdul Rahman, sultan of Riau-Johor, was was under Dutch surveillance.
Prosecutors say at one point he found himself a subordinate of his mobster son, who rose through the ranks with his help – a favor his father regretted.
Ms. Khoo provided the same lifeline to young colleagues, once professing shock that a subordinate of Vietnamese descent had never sampled Vietnamese cuisine.
Describes briefly the siege of Khartoum & the resulting anger and frustration that set the stage for Stanley's expedition to relieve a subordinate of Gordons, named Emin Pasha.
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It is a subordinate unit of the 21st Theater Sustainment Command of the Seventh Army.
AFRICOM, launched in October 2007 as a subordinate element of European Command in a kind of training-wheels period, was created to unify DoD's diffuse Africa efforts.
In 1998, National Institute for the Control of Pharmaceutical and Biological Products became a subordinate unit of the State Drug and Food Administration.
At central level CCDC, a subordinate department of the Ministry of Health (MOH), takes the responsibility for management of communicable disease surveillance systems.
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