SUBSIDIARY in a Sentence

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This information may be used as subsidiary evidence but is not sufficient by itself to prove your argument.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUBSIDIARY
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subsidiary
 a.  subordinate; secondary; serving to assist or supplement
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1  This information may be used as subsidiary evidence but is not sufficient by itself to prove your argument.
2  The profits don't stay with the Dublin subsidiary, which reported pretax income of less than 1 percent of sales in 2008, according to Irish records.
3  The Locomotive Construction Company Ltd is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Trust.
4  The subsidiary eventually outgrew its parent company and took it over.
5  It was 18 months ago when the powerful US congressional committee blew the lid on Apple's aggressive corporate tax structure, which allowed it to funnel $US44 billion dollars out of the country through a network of tax haven subsidiaries.