Major
Major adjective - Sufficiently large in size, amount, or number to merit attention.
Subsidiary is an antonym for major.
Subsidiary
Both words in one sentence
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Page Industries, a true Mega Corp with major roles in (at least) network communications, space mining, and heavy manufacturing; and its subsidiary Versalife, a massive pharmaceutical company with political power because it's patented the cure to The Plague which it also produces.
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Bally, later Bally/Midway, later Midway Games is an American company formerly known for being a major Arcade Game manufacturer, Pinball creator, and Video Game publisher and developer.The company was first founded in 1932 by Raymond Moloney as a subsidiary of Lion Manufacturing.
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In 1989, after releasing Monsters, they briefly broke up, but they re-formed in 1991 and signed to major label subsidiary London Records.They achieved their highest level of commercial success in 1994, with the release of Too High To Die, which contained the minor hit "Backwater".
Source: Music / Meat Puppets
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