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1. (adj.) subservient
serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
2. subservient
servile; excessively submissive; obsequious.
3. subservient
useful in promoting a purpose or end.
Etymology: (1625–35; < L subservient-, s. of subserviēns, prp. of subservīre to subserve ; see -ent)
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1. (adj) subservient
compliant and obedient to authority
"editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones"-G. B. Shaw
2. (adj) implemental, instrumental, subservient
serving or acting as a means or aid
"instrumental in solving the crime"
3. (adj) slavish, subservient, submissive
abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant
"slavish devotion to her job ruled her life"; "a slavish yes-man to the party bosses"- S.H.Adams; "she has become submissive and subservient"
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1. (adj) subservient
fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling
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