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Subordinated

Describing a class of security that, in the event of liquidation, is prioritized lower than other classes of security. For example, a subordinated security may be an unsecured loan, which has no collateral. Should the issuer be liquidated, all secured bonds and debts must be repaid before the subordinated security is repaid. A subordinated security carries higher risk but also pays higher returns than other classes. See also: Junior Debt.

subordinate

To agree to place one's mortgage or other interests in a junior position relative to another. See subordinated ground lease and subordinated mortgage.

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Patrizia Lendinara, in her essay of 1997, mentions as evidence of her claim that AEthelberht was modeled on "the Latin codes of the Continental Germani in style and layout" the structural similarities between subordinate clauses in both the Latin codes and AEthelberht: "Si quis .
The continental origins of AEthelberht's code
All subordinate clauses are of three types--adjective, adverb, and noun.
Diagram for analysis
The comma is omitted when the subordinate clause is restrictive, that is, when it limits the meaning of a word in the main clause or is otherwise essential to the meaning of the sentence.
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Since Otomi does have subordinate clauses, and the borrowed subordinators occupy the first position of their clause just like the native ones, we will assume that clauses with the Spanish loan are indeed subordinate.
Clause combining in Otomi before and after contact with Spanish
311), comes from a subordinate clause, where, as I observed in the present study, participles may function differently than in main clauses.
The Syriac active participle and the expression of the past imperfective and the present
But the choice between the infinitive and the subordinate clause is another phenomenon.
Periphrastic renderings and their element order in Old English versions of the gospels
While a finite verb allows the parser to construct a node S, it does not indicate that S is the MNCC of a main clause--there are also subordinate clauses including a finite verb.
Competing motivations for the ordering of main and adverbial clauses *
subordinate clause fragment--a type of incomplete sentence that consists of a subordinating conjunction plus a subject and verb
Glossary of terms
A later lesson used sentence combining to create a variety of simple, compound and complex sentences, while a simple cut-up resource encouraged students to explore the subtle changes of emphasis and effect created by moving subordinate clauses into different positions within a sentence.
Focusing fiction: how grammar can be used as a tool for shaping narrative writing
Pianzheng fuju is a complex sentence structure in Chinese and is composed of a subordinate clause and a main.
Revisiting relevant approaches for the study of language and intercultural communication
The occurrence of the leave form in the subordinate clause, as an alternative for some speakers to the formally indicative leaves, is sanctioned by the semantic class of the main verb.
Finiteness, subjunctives, and negation in English
This last feature leads Dik to regard this type of nominal clauses as examples of finite subordinate clauses (1997b: 157), a suggestion which is followed here in the analysis of the Subject of a sentence such as the one exemplified in (14), which is regarded as a complex term realised by means of a finite subordinate clause:
A new parameter for the description of subject assignment: the term hierarchy

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