subservient person

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• subservient — UK US /səbˈsɜːviənt/ adjective ► willing to do what another person, organization, etc. wants, and considering your aims or wishes to be less important than those of others: »a subservient position/role subservient to sb/sth »Critics say the… …   Financial and business terms

• subservient — sub|ser|vi|ent [səbˈsə:viənt US ˈsə:r ] adj [Date: 1600 1700; : Latin; Origin: , present participle of subservire to serve, be subservient , from servire to serve ] 1.) always obeying another person and doing everything they want you to do used… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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• lapdog — also lap dog, 1640s, from LAP (Cf. lap) (n.) + DOG (Cf. dog) (n.); figurative sense of subservient person is by 1950. Senator McCarthy (R Wis) renewed his Communists in Government charges today and called Senator Tydings (D Md) the Truman… …   Etymology dictionary

• grunt — [grant] 1. n. an infantry soldier. (Military. From the gutteral sound made by a pig, and anyone doing very heavy labor.) □ Hey, you grunts! Get in line! □ Get those grunts out on the field at sunrise! 2. n. a low ranking or subservient person.… …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

• India — /in dee euh/, n. 1. Hindi, Bharat. a republic in S Asia: a union comprising 25 states and 7 union territories; formerly a British colony; gained independence Aug. 15, 1947; became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations Jan. 26, 1950.… …   Universalium

• auxiliary — auxiliary, subsidiary, accessory, contributory, subservient, ancillary, adjuvant mean supplying aid or support. Auxiliary may imply subordinate rank or position {an auxiliary organization} {an auxiliary bishop} {the conclusion that the humanistic …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• List of ethnic slurs — The following is a list of ethnic slurs (ethnophaulisms) that are, or have been, used as insinuations or allegations about members of a given ethnicity or to refer to them in a derogatory (critical or disrespectful), pejorative (disapproving or… …   Wikipedia

• dependent — de·pen·dent 1 adj 1: determined or conditioned by another: contingent 2 a: relying on another for esp. financial support b: lacking the necessary means of support or protection and in need of aid from others (as a public agency) have the child… …   Law dictionary

• education — /ej oo kay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life. 2. the act or process of… …   Universalium

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