To place in a lower order or class; to make or consider as of less value or importance; as, to subordinate one creature to another.
To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to subordinate the passions to reason.
To make subject or junior to. Back to the Top
To make inferior in priority.
A subordinate is someone in a lower rank or position.
The placing of a claim below other interests. (1) Subordinated Debenture: An unsecured bond that has a junior claim to all other general creditors. (2) Subordinated Working Interest. See also: Reversionary Working Interest.
To allow a new lien to move into a superior position of priority over an existing lien.
subject to or under the authority of a superior or dominant being.
Inferior; less important.
(sub OR di nate) adj: below another in rank or importance Commanders use operation and administrative/logistic plans and orders to convey information and instructions to subordinate units.
The process of making junior, secondary, or subject to something else.
a less important, lower ranking member of a group.
an assistant subject to the authority or control of another
rank or order as less important or consider of less value; "Art is sometimes subordinated to Science in these schools"
lower in rank or importance
subject or submissive to authority or the control of another; "a subordinate kingdom"
inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary"
Lower ranking in power, control and privilege.
The process of creating action that is supports a “superior†process. i.e., all non-constraint resources work at the same pace as the drum resource.
Having lower priority to cash flows (relative to "senior" tranches). In a CMO with default risk, subordinate tranches are the first to absorb credit losses.
The lower, or underprivileged, group in a stratified system.
A lien taking a legal title position junior to another lien that recorded later. For example, if a mortgage lien recorded in 1996, it can subordinate to a lien recorded in 1999. Subordination may apply not only to mortgages, but also to leases, real estate rights and any other type of debt instruments.
To assign a claim or account a lower priority than other obligations.
To place a lesser rank or importance, or to make one claim secondary to another.
Place in a lower class or rank.
When a mortgagee or trust deed beneficiary agrees to accept lower lien priority than he or she is entitled to, allowing a lender with a lien recorded later to have higher priority.
(v) To yield one's priority interest or senior interest in a property and to agree to become junior (or subordinate) to another party's interest.
One who moves to a lower priority, as a lien would if it changes from a First Mortgage to a Second Mortgage.
To place a claim below others. (1) Subordinated Debenture: An unsecured bond which has a junior claim to all other general creditors. (2) Subordinated working interest. See: Reversionary Working Interest.
To make subject or junior to. For example, a loan on vacant land is made subject to a subsequent construction loan.
as it relates to mortgage loans, to categorize one claim as less important than the other claim
Of inferior importance or rank, secondary, subservient.
To make inferior or junior to another interest or lien.
to place in a rank of lesser importance or to make one claim secondary to another.
To make subject to, or junior to.
Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; occupying a lower position in a regular descending series; act of a creditor aclmowledging in writing that the lien of the debt due him from a debtor shall be inferior to the lien of another creditor of the same debtor.
To reduce the priority of payment of a debt or lien as when a first lien becomes a second lien because it allowed another debt to become a first lien in its place.