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# subsidiary

noun

«subsidiary» in the English dictionary: in Wikipedia — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Wikipedia

Source: the Wikipedia dictionary, from the English Wikipedia articles Mova reads whole. Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). A draft: made natively by Nautilus, one of Mova's workers, from Mova's own counts; not reviewed. Not part of Mova: never in its repository, releases or programs.

### Counted by Mova

183 uses in 75 of the 531 articles of the Wikipedia school's corpus; as a noun in 173 of 183. By the class of the article: company 32, city 18, agglomeration 8, country 6. Most often with: «company», «own», «become», «establish», «wholly».

### Examples

- After acquiring ATI, AMD retained ATI Technologies as a subsidiary, but in 2010 AMD ceased using the ATI brand name, renaming its flagship Radeon graphics processor products with its branding instead. — [ATI Technologies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI_Technologies), sentence 6 («wiki:ATI\_Technologies:6»)
- Electricity and natural gas in Abington Township is provided by PECO Energy Company, a subsidiary of Exelon. — [Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abington_Township,_Montgomery_County,_Pennsylvania), sentence 83 («wiki:Abington\_Township,\_Montgomery\_County,\_Pennsylvania:83»)
- It was created through a restructuring of Google on October 2, 2015, and became the parent holding company of Google and several former Google subsidiaries. — [Alphabet Inc.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc.), sentence 2 («wiki:Alphabet\_Inc.:2»)

### Note

Draft: made natively by Nautilus from the Wikipedia school's corpus; the counts and examples are Mova's own, the meaning is the pupils' dictionary's; no sense of this source is written yet.

### Sources

- From Wikipedia, [«ATI Technologies»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI_Technologies), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abington_Township,_Montgomery_County,_Pennsylvania), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Alphabet Inc.»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc.), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- Examples quote Wikipedia; this block is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.