Minute
Minute adjective - Including many small descriptive features.
Subordinate and minute are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Subordinate" instead an adjective "Minute".
Subordinate
Subordinate adjective - Having not so great importance or rank as another.
Usage example: his contention is that environment plays a subordinate role to heredity in determining what we become
Minute and subordinate are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Minute" instead an adjective "Subordinate".
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Both words in one sentence
- When he comes out of his 10-Minute Retirement, Rebus winds up demoted to DS, meaning that he's now Siobhan's subordinate.
Source: Literature / Rebus - In a filler episode of the 2003 anime version of Fullmetal Alchemist, Roy Mustang has done several things such as sleep at his desk and try to feed his subordinate's dog, Hayate, before finally getting to work on reports at the last minute.
Source: Ridiculous Procrastinator - Kiku can read at over 2,000 words per minute, useful since he needed to go through a dozen memos and other documents per working hour, making the occasional notation and referral to subordinate for action.
Source: Badass Bureaucrat
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