SUBALTERNS Synonyms

• a serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles

• a group of followers or enthusiasts

• works for an expert to learn a trade

• be or work as an apprentice

• a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose

• of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another

• a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor

• a friend who is frequently in the company of another

• a person with subordinate membership in a society, institution, or commercial enterprise

• any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another

• a degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies

• having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status

• make a logical or causal connection

• keep company with; hang out with

• bring or come into association or action

• someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another

• a person who is present and participates in a meeting

• an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another

• being present (at a meeting or event, etc.)

• occurring with or following as a consequence

• someone authorized to exercise the powers of sheriff in emergencies

• an assistant with power to act when his superior is absent

• a member of the lower chamber of a legislative assembly (such as in France)

• a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others

• a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose

• a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help)

• a person who works only for money

• a newly hired employee

• the act of hiring something or someone

• engage or hire for work

• hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

• engage for service under a term of contract

• of or characteristic of low rank or importance

• of low or inferior quality

• written or printed below and to one side of another character

• having an orbit between the sun and the Earth's orbit

• one of lesser rank or station or quality

• a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character

• lower than a given reference point

• falling short of some prescribed norm

• younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service

• term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male

• a son who has the same first name as his father

• a third-year undergraduate

• the younger of two persons

• used of the younger of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a son from his father

• used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college

• including or intended for youthful persons

• a male servant (especially a footman)

• a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage

• a servile or fawning dependant

• a laborer who is obliged to do menial work

• a nurse in training who is undergoing a trial period

• someone released on probation or on parole

• being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate

• the defensive football players who line up behind the linemen

• coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil

• inferior in rank or status

• depending on or incidental to what is original or primary

• not of major importance

• belonging to a lower class or rank

• (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord

• lower in rank or importance

• subject or submissive to authority or the control of another

• (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence

• an assistant subject to the authority or control of another

• a word that is more specific than a given word

• rank or order as less important or consider of less value

• make subordinate, dependent, or subservient