An assistant subject to the authority or control of another.

synonyms: foot soldier, subordinate, underling.

Roget 746: subject, liegeman^†; servant, retainer, follower, henchman, servitor, domestic, menial, help, lady help, employe, attache; official.    retinue, suite, cortege, staff, court.    attendant, squire, usher, page, donzel^†, footboy^†; train bearer, cup bearer; waiter, lapster^†, butler, livery servant, lackey, footman, flunky, flunkey, valet, valet de chambre [Fr.]; equerry, groom; jockey, hostler, ostler^†, tiger, orderly, messenger, cad, gillie^†, herdsman, swineherd; barkeeper, bartender; bell boy, boots, boy, counterjumper^†; khansamah^†, khansaman^†; khitmutgar^†; yardman.    bailiff, castellan^†, seneschal, chamberlain, major-domo^†, groom of the chambers.    secretary; under secretary, assistant secretary; clerk; subsidiary; agent etc. 758; subaltern; underling, understrapper; man.    maid, maidservant; handmaid; confidente [Fr.], lady's maid, abigail, soubrette; amah^†, biddy, nurse, bonne [Fr.], ayah^†; nursemaid, nursery maid, house maid, parlor maid, waiting maid, chamber maid, kitchen maid, scullery maid; femme de chambre [Fr.], femme fille [Fr.]; camarista^†; chef de cuisine, cordon bleu [Fr.], cook, scullion, Cinderella; potwalloper^†; maid of all work, servant of all work; laundress, bedmaker^†; journeyman, charwoman etc. (worker) 690; bearer, chokra^†, gyp (Cambridge), hamal^†, scout (Oxford). serf, vassal, slave, negro, helot; bondsman, bondswoman^†; bondslave^†; ame damnee [Fr.], odalisque, ryot^†, adscriptus gleboe [Lat.]; villian^†, villein; beadsman^†, bedesman^†; sizar^†; pensioner, pensionary^†; client; dependant, dependent; hanger on, satellite; parasite etc. (servility) 886; led captain; protege [Fr.], ward, hireling, mercenary, puppet, tool, creature.    badge of slavery; bonds etc. 752.    ... show more

Dutch: ondergeschikte
Polish: podwładny

A company that is completely controlled by another company.

synonym: subsidiary company.

Dutch: dochterbedrijf, dochtermaatschappij, dochteronderneming, werkmaatschappij
Polish: firma-córka

Functioning in a supporting capacity.

synonyms: auxiliary, supplemental, supplementary.

Roget 176: tending etc. v.; conducive, working towards, in a fair way to, calculated to; liable etc. 177; subservient etc. (instrumental) 631; useful etc. 644; subsidiary etc. (helping) 707.    ... show more

Roget 644: useful; of use etc. n.; serviceable, proficuous^†, good for; subservient etc. (instrumental) 631; conducive etc. (tending) 176; subsidiary etc. (helping) 707.    advantageous etc. (beneficial) 648; profitable, gainful, remunerative, worth one's salt; valuable; prolific etc. (productive) 168.    adequate; efficient, efficacious; effective, effectual; expedient etc. 646.    applicable, available, ready, handy, at hand, tangible; commodious, adaptable; of all work.    ... show more

Roget 707: aiding etc. v.; auxiliary, adjuvant, helpful; coadjuvant etc. 709^†; subservient, ministrant, ancillary, accessory, subsidiary.    at one's beck, at one's beck and call; friendly, amicable, favorable, propitious, well-disposed; neighborly; obliging etc. (benevolent) 906.    ... show more