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Discover LudwigThe phrase "to be subordinated" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to be placed in a position of inferiority or to be under the control of someone else. Example: In many traditional societies, women are expected to be subordinated to men and are not given equal rights or opportunities.
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The first is that other economic goals need to be subordinated to the exchange rate.
Other economic priorities have to be subordinated to the currency target.
"We did not want to be subordinated to anyone else," he said.
This person said that the partners were aware that they had differing agendas that might have to be subordinated to some extent to make the project work.
The Department of Energy would also have to provide more information to Congress, and could not allow taxpayer funds to be subordinated when troubled loans are restructured.
A great part of the art of it is precisely in seeing that this does not happen.... Everything has to be subordinated to a whole which is not you.
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However, the UAE authorities would clearly be reluctant to be seen to be subordinating their monetary and exchange rate policies to the concerns of expatriate workers.
She doesn't even pretend to be subordinate to her husband.
It adopts a defiant psyche because appeasement would show it to be subordinate to the west.
Liberty of contract certainly did exist, but it had to be subordinate to the police power.
A worker's life story was programmed to be subordinate to the superorganism's needs.
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