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subsidiaryIn business, a company that is legally controlled by another company having 50% or more of its shares. A parent company may believe that having a subsidiary is preferable to full integration for taxation purposes, or may allow local participation if the subsidiary is in another country. |
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| Dramatic action, therefore, is not with a view to the representation of character: character comes in as subsidiary to the actions. Besides, I use subsidiary reservoirs only to attain a mean depth of 750 to 1,000 fathoms, and that with a view of managing my machines. The reason was that I had become mercifully engrossed in one of the subsidiary problems: whether it would be better to drop from the window or to trust to the creaking stairs. |
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