Underling

You're just an underling. Know your place!

He's my underling.

A bandit will be the best underling.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

"I love not that underlings should perceive my wisdom."

His decision to stay at the compound in the face of possible assassination set an example, making it more difficult for his underlings to cut and run. “Anyone who left is a traitor,” Ruslan Stefanchuk, the speaker of Ukraine’s parliament, told its members a few hours after the invasion started.

So read the email from Ray Dalio, founder of the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, and a billionaire many times over. It would be read by more than 1,000 of his underlings at the company.