Subordination

1. n. Place of inferior rank.
2. n. The act of subordinating, placing in a lower order, or subjecting.
3. n. The quality or state of being subordinate or inferior to an other; inferiority of rank or dignity; subjection.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.