Definition of "subordination"

subordination

/səˌbɔːdɪˈneɪʃn̩/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural subordinations
1. The process of making something subordinate.
2. The process of subordinating.
  Quotations
  Sound logic, as the habitual subordination of the individual to the species, and of the species to the genus […]
  1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria‎, New York: Leavitt, Lord & Co., published 1834
3. The property of being subordinate; inferiority of rank or position.
4. The quality of being properly obedient to a superior (as a superior officer).