'subordinate relationship' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a relationship between two people in which one has authority or power over the other. For example, "The boss and employee have a subordinate relationship, with the boss having the final say in decisions."
That is a subordinate relationship that is alien to America's basic values, which represent freedom and egalitarianism.
Though its website pledges to end Japan's "extraordinary subordinate relationship" to America, in practice the JCP focuses on narrower struggles.
Justice Ginsburg addressed their point: "Same-sex unions would not have opted into the pattern of marriage, which was... a dominant and a subordinate relationship".
"It is clear there is a subordinate relationship between Cosa Nostra and the Nigerian clans, with the former controlling the latter," said Agueci.
Daenerys's relationship with Missandei (Nathalie Emmanuel) is warmer, but it remains a subordinate relationship between a queen and the slave she freed and elevated.
In France organizations similar to think tanks are related to the government in Paris and have a conflictual but subordinate relationship with political parties.
However, there are often only vertical subordinate relationships between concepts with no horizontal and cross-layer interactions.
As the Libyan episode has shown, the United States should be concerned about spreading responsibility and initiative across the world, to seek co-operative, not subordinate relationships.
To complicate things further, female boss-female subordinate relationships can be particularly prickly, especially in firms with few women at the top.
The effect of the dominant – subordinate relationships established in male-male encounters in step 1 of our study was examined in subsequent female mate choice experiments.
In addition, it should enhance an effective superior-subordinate relationship.
