Subordinate vs. Supervisor

Subordinateadjective

Placed in a lower class, rank, or position.

Subordinateadjective

Submissive or inferior to, or controlled by, authority.

Subordinateadjective

dependent on and either modifying or complementing the main clause

Subordinateadjective

Descending in a regular series.

Subordinatenoun

(countable) One who is subordinate.

Subordinateverb

(transitive) To make subservient.

Subordinateverb

(transitive) To treat as of less value or importance.

Subordinateverb

To make of lower priority in order of payment in bankruptcy.

Subordinateadjective

Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.

Subordinateadjective

Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like.

Subordinatenoun

One who stands in order or rank below another; - distinguished from a principal.

Subordinateverb

To place in a lower order or class; to make or consider as of less value or importance; as, to subordinate one creature to another.

Subordinateverb

To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to subordinate the passions to reason.

Subordinatenoun

an assistant subject to the authority or control of another

Subordinatenoun

a word that is more specific than a given word

Subordinateverb

rank or order as less important or consider of less value;

Subordinateverb

make subordinate, dependent, or subservient;

Subordinateadjective

lower in rank or importance

Subordinateadjective

subject or submissive to authority or the control of another;

Subordinateadjective

of a clause; unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence;

Subordinateadjective

inferior in rank or status;

Subordinateadjective

lower in rank or position

Subordinateadjective

of less or secondary importance

Subordinatenoun

a person under the authority or control of another within an organization

Subordinateverb

treat or regard as of lesser importance than something else

Subordinateverb

make subservient to or dependent on something else

Supervisornoun

(management) A person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group, or of other operations and activities.

Supervisornoun

A person who monitors someone to make sure they comply with rules or other requirements set for them.

Supervisornoun

(US) In certain states, an elected member of the governing body for a county which is called the board of supervisors.

Supervisornoun

(computing) A process responsible for managing other processes.

Supervisornoun

One who supervises; an overseer; an inspector; a superintendent; as, a supervisor of schools.

Supervisornoun

A spectator; a looker-on.

Supervisornoun

one who supervises or has charge and direction of

Supervisornoun

a program that controls the execution of other programs

Supervisornoun

a person who supervises a person or an activity.

Supervisornoun

a person who directs and oversees the work of a postgraduate research student.

Supervisor

A supervisor, or also known as foreman, boss, overseer, facilitator, monitor, area coordinator, or sometimes gaffer, is the job title of a low level management position that is primarily based on authority over a worker or charge of a workplace. A supervisor can also be one of the most senior in the staff at the place of work, such as a Professor who oversees a PhD dissertation.