Subsidiary, is an adjective describing nouns like: act, bank and clause
An adjective is a part of speech, that describes a noun. It enriches a sentence by adding an additional information. There are several types of adjectives and different ways of creating them.
This page is assigned to the adjective subsidiary that illustrates nouns beginning with account. Sorting of these words is random. Moreover the listed vocabulary is divided into five groups, just like our entire website. This particular section refers to Business vocabulary. You may wonder what is a difference between Verbsearch and other comparable sites. The goal behind our website is to fit the search results as close to your requirements as possible. This means that for the purposes of a business study the vocabulary will be slightly different than for law works. We hope that this split will allow to find the most satisfactory nouns. However if you are not fully satisfied with the search results, just check out the other category. Note that the most typical words are presented in the general section, but more specific ones you will find in the other four categories. Note, that if you want to search for other nouns that are related to the word subsidiary click on a particular word. However, if you want to learn more about adjectives overall, read the text below.
What exactly is an adjective
Adjective is a word that specify and transforms a noun. This part of speech gives more details about a specific person, a place or a thing. Its role is to enrich a noun. However, it can significantly change the meaning of a described noun.
See examples blow:
• The opposite meaning, adjectives change the meaning of a noun: a spoken word or a written word
• More details, adjectives enrich a noun with detailed, the descriptive information: a professional, scientific thesis
• A different meaning, each adjective describes a noun with a different but not opposite meaning: a beautiful place or a dark place
So, in other words, adjective gives specifics of a state or quality of the illustrated noun. It collects and provides information about object, size, colour, age, shape, origin and many more.
Creating an adjective
This part of speech is formed in different ways. Some adjectives are built by adding a suffix –able to a verb, eg: flammable. Other consist of a noun and –ful at the end, like successful. Some suffixes with examples are listed below.
• - al: political
• - ary: stationary
• - ish: childish
• - ic: athletic
• - less: meaningless
• - ous: fabulous
• - ive: cooperative
Adjective types
There are several types of adjectives, among others:
• Descriptive:
◦ (size): tall
◦ (color): purple
◦ (opinion): purple
◦ (age): boring
◦ (shape): seven
• Quantitative: triangle
• Nationality: British
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Last updated: Oct 10, 2026
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