Subordination may refer to *Subordination in a

hierarchy A hierarchy (from Greek: , from , 'president of sacred rites') is an arrangement of items (objects, names, values, categories, etc.) that are represented as being "above", "below", or "at the same level as" one another. Hierarchy is an important ...

(in military, society, etc.) ** Insubordination, disobedience * Subordination (linguistics) *

Subordination (finance) Subordination in banking and finance refers to the order of priorities in claims for ownership or interest in various assets. United States law Subordination of debt Subordination is the process by which a creditor is placed in a lower priority f ...

Subordination agreement A subordination agreement is a legal document used to make the claim of one party junior to (or inferior to) a claim in favor of another. It is generally used to grant first lien status to a lienholder A lien ( or ) is a form of security inte ...

, a legal document used to deprecate the claim of one party in favor of another *

Subordination (horse) Subordination (foaled May 24, 1994) is an American millionaire Thoroughbred racehorse who won major Graded stakes races in 1997 and 1998. Owned by Seth Klarman's Klaravich Stables and trained by Gary Sciacca, Subordination won on both dirt and t ...

, a Thoroughbred racehorse

In mathematics

Littlewood subordination theorem In mathematics, the Littlewood subordination theorem, proved by J. E. Littlewood in 1925, is a theorem in operator theory and complex analysis. It states that any Holomorphic function, holomorphic univalent function, univalent self-mapping of the u ...

* Subordinate partition of unity in paracompact space {{disambig