The phrase "a subordinate partner" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one partner in a relationship or business arrangement has less power or authority than the other.
Example: "In this joint venture, Company A will act as a subordinate partner, following the lead of Company B."
Alternatives: "a junior partner" or "a secondary partner".
It was reintroduced almost surreptitiously as a distinctly subordinate partner and regained a leading role only toward the end of the 18th century in Mozart's later violin sonatas and then in those of Ludwig van Beethoven.
Subordinates transferred a tool to their dominant partner on average 50.0% (SD = 44.1) of trials during the mismatched condition, whereas the dominants transferred a tool to their subordinate partner on average only 16.7% (SD = 7.2) of trials.
Until Paumanok decided to let its cabernet franc be a solo performer, it had been a subordinate blending partner in other reds.
One of the staples of a dominatrix role is to tie up your subordinate partner (sub).
On the basis of the aforementioned literature, we asked whether the presence of its own (dominant or subordinate) partner could modulate the behavioral response to pain of a mouse during the formalin test.
When they're just ridiculously hot and you're jus the obviously subordinate partner?
The IMF is the subordinate partner in the "troika" (including the European Central Bank and the European commission) that has been calling the shots for the Greek economy these past four years, but it is the one in charge of putting numbers on the page.
And for the two operations to work well together, somebody has to acknowledge that he is the subordinate partner.
The IMF is the subordinate partner in the "troika" (including the European Central Bank and the European Commission) that has been calling the shots for the Greek economy these past four years, but it is the one in charge of putting numbers on the page.
