Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To supply; afford; administer.
  • To subserve; be useful; be subservient.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To supply; to afford.
  • intransitive verb obsolete To be subservient; to be useful.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb archaic to supply; to administer
  • verb archaic to be subservient to
  • noun a subordinate minister

Etymologies

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From the Latin subministrō, sumministrō (equivalent to English sub- + minister)

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Examples

  • "That's what you get from a former subminister of Natural Resources."

    Flash ModesittJr_LE 2004

  • Visitors interested in small transactions didn't get in to see the subminister himself.

    With Friends Like These Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

  • So it was that they eventually found themselves in the offices of Sim-sem Alround, subminister for Unincorporated Imperial Territories.

    With Friends Like These... Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

  • Visitors interested in small transactions didn't get in to see the subminister himself.

    With Friends Like These... Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

  • Visitors interested in small transactions didn't get in to see the subminister himself.

    With Friends Like These... Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

  • So it was that they eventually found themselves in the offices of Sim-sem Alround, subminister for Unincorporated Imperial Territories.

    With Friends Like These Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

  • So it was that they eventually found themselves in the offices of Sim-sem Alround, subminister for Unincorporated Imperial Territories.

    With Friends Like These... Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

  • Rog Clifton had seemed undecided; he had first put down the name of Angel Jesus de la Tone y Perez, the career subminister.

    Double Star Heinlein, Robert A. 1956

  • The subminister interrupted: "Excuse me ... there's something you should know before we go any further.

    With Friends Like These Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

  • The subminister interrupted: "Excuse me ... there's something you should know before we go any further.

    With Friends Like These... Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

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