proposition, sub- , subserve, subservience, subaltern

A Quiet Mission to Put Kushner in Contact With North Korea

By MARK MAZZETTI and MARK LANDLER 5:00 AM ET

• An American financier approached the Trump administration last summer with an unusual proposition: The North Korean government wanted to talk to Jared Kushner.

 A Subaltern, A Description of the Ruined City of Mandu, the Ancient Capital of Malwa (Bombay: Bombay Times' Press, 1844), 121, 107. This is a revision of a work published under the pseudonym "Selim" in several issues of the Bombay Courier in 1839: 9 April, 20 April, 23 April, 27 April, 30 April. The Cave Temples of India identifies this wily Subaltern/Selim as one Lieutenant Blake (James Fergusson and James Burgess, The Cave Temples of India [London: W.H. Allen, 1880], 281).

//石黑長期在文學裡流徙，對於一代又一代為移民問題掙扎的香港人來說或許有種曲折的親切感；事實上在他寫作事業的開端，石黑正是以身為日裔移民的屬下（subaltern）聲音在提倡多元文化的英國文壇別開蹊徑。//

The mainstream media "plays an essential role in the dissemination of official propaganda."

The Movie That Completely Exposes the Myth of the 'Free Press'

'Kill the Messenger' reveals the media's subservience to power.

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subservient

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Pronunciation: /səbˈsəːvɪənt /

ADJECTIVE

1Prepared to obey others unquestioningly:she was subservient to her parents

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1.1Less important; subordinate:he expected her career to become subservient to his

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1.2Serving as a means to an end:the whole narration is subservient to the moralplan of exemplifying twelve virtues in twelveknights

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Origin

mid 17th century: from Latin subservient- 'subjecting to, complying with', from the verb subservire (seesubserve).

Derivatives

subservience

NOUN

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subserviency

NOUN

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subserviently

ADVERB

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subserve

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Pronunciation: /səbˈsəːv/

VERB

[WITH OBJECT]

Help to further or promote:they extended the uses of writing to subserve theirpolitical interest

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Origin

mid 17th century: from Latin subservire (see sub-,serve).

sub-

Pronunciation: /sʌb, səb/

PREFIX

1At, to, or from a lower level or position:subalpine

1.1Lower in rank:subalternsubdeacon

1.2Of a smaller size; of a subordinate nature:subculture

2Somewhat; nearly; more or less:subantarctic

3Denoting subsequent or secondary action of the same kind:subletsubdivision

4Denoting support:subvention

5Chemistry In names of compounds containing a relatively small proportion of a component:suboxide

Origin

from Latin sub 'under, close to'.

subaltern

ˈsʌb(ə)lt(ə)n/

noun

1. 1.

   an officer in the British army below the rank of captain, especially a second lieutenant.

adjective

1. 1.

   of lower status.

   
   

   "the private tutor was a recognized subaltern part of the bourgeois family"
2. 2.

   LOGICdated

   (of a proposition) implied by another proposition (e.g. as a particular affirmative is by a universal one), but not implying it in return.