Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - subservient
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Subservient
subservient
1. If you are subservient, you do whatever someone wants you to do. She is expected to be subservient to her uncle. ADJ: oft ADJ to n • subservience ...an austere regime stressing obedience and subservience to authority. N-UNCOUNT 2. If you treat one thing as subservient to another, you treat it as less important than the other thing. The woman’s needs are seen as subservient to the group interest. ADJ: v-link ADJ to n
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adjective Etymology: Latin ~-, subserviens, present participle of subservire Date: circa 1626 1. useful in an inferior capacity ; subordinate 2. serving to promote some end 3. obsequiously submissive ; truckling • ~ly adverb Synonyms: ~, servile, slavish, obsequious mean showing or characterized by extreme compliance or abject obedience. ~ implies the cringing manner of one very conscious of a subordinate position domestic help was expected to be properly ~. servile suggests the mean or fawning behavior of a slave a political boss and his entourage of servile hangers-on. slavish suggests abject or debased servility the slavish status of migrant farm workers. obsequious implies fawning or sycophantic compliance and exaggerated deference of manner waiters who are obsequious in the presence of celebrities. ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. 1 cringing; obsequious. 2 (usu. foll. by to) serving as a means; instrumental. 3 (usu. foll. by to) subordinate. Derivatives subservience n. subserviency n. subserviently adv. Etymology: L subserviens subservient- (as SUBSERVE) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
прил. 1) раболепный, подобострастный 2) подчиненный SUBSERVIENT 1) зависимый (о патенте); подчиненный 2) содействующий ...Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
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1. раболепный, подобострастный 2. служащий средством, содействующий; полезный subservient to our enterprise —- содействующий нашему замыслу 3. подчиненный ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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adj. 1) подчиненный 2) раболепный 3) служащий средством, содействующий (to) Syn: see obsequious ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ adj 1 someone who is subservient is too willing to do what other people want them to do 2 formal less important than something else; subordinate (Your own needs must be subservient to those of the group.) - subserviently adv - subservience n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1632, "useful, serviceable," from L. subservientem (nom. subserviens), prp. of subservire "assist, lend support," from sub "under" + servire "serve." The meaning "slavishly obedient" is first recorded 1794. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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