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subsidiary

[suhb-sid-ee-er-ee] / səbˈsɪd iˌɛr i /


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A McKinsey subsidiary reached a separate Justice Department settlement that same year to resolve allegations that it had paid bribes to officials at two South Africa state-owned companies to win consulting work.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 1, 2026

An earlier version of this article incorrectly said AUS is a subsidiary of Ant International.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 1, 2026

Those pieces can be seen in SoftBank’s huge investment in OpenAI and its chips subsidiary, Arm, as well as its huge investments in data centers globally.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 27, 2026

Now a subsidiary label of Hybe — parent company of K-pop superstars BTS — Pledis was forming what became one of the most successful “third generation” K-pop groups of all time: Seventeen.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026

The subsidiary reason is that the Party member, like the proletarian, tolerates present-day conditions partly because he has no standards of comparison.

From "1984" by George Orwell




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