An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
SUBSIDIARY
auxiliary, subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary
(adjective) functioning in a supporting capacity; “the main library and its auxiliary branches”
subordinate, subsidiary, underling, foot soldier
(noun) an assistant subject to the authority or control of another
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
subsidiary (comparative more subsidiary, superlative most subsidiary)
Auxiliary or supplemental.
Secondary or subordinate.
Of, or relating to a subsidy.
Noun
subsidiary (plural subsidiaries)
A company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company.
(music) A subordinate theme.
One who aids or supplies; an assistant.
Source: Wiktionary
Sub*sid"i*a*ry, a. Etym: [L. subsidiarius: cf. F. subsidiaire. See Subsidy.]
1. Furnishing aid; assisting; auxiliary; helping; tributary; especially, aiding in an inferior position or capacity; as, a subsidiary stream. Chief ruler and principal head everywhere, not suffragant and subsidiary. Florio. They constituted a useful subsidiary testimony of another state of existence. Coleridge.
2. Of or pertaining to a subsidy; constituting a subsidy; being a part of, or of the nature of, a subsidy; as, subsidiary payments to an ally. George the Second relied on his subsidiary treaties. Ld. Mahon.
Sub*sid"i*a*ry, n.; pl. Subsidiaries (.
Definition: One who, or that which, contributes aid or additional supplies; an assistant; an auxiliary. Hammond.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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