The new department will subsume both Tom and Mary's departments.
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Subsume
//səbˈsuːm//
Synonyms for "subsume" (28 found)
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Related words (14)
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3 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entriesmanner of
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8 entriesTranslations
49 translations across 17 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- отнасям към verb (to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule)
Catalan
1 entries- subsumir verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 歸入 /归入 verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
Czech
3 entries- včlenit verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
- začlenit verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
- zařadit verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
Dutch
4 entries- onderbrengen verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
- plaatsen in verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
- veralgemenen verb (to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule)
- verenigen verb (to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule)
Finnish
4 entries- liittää verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
- liittää verb (to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule)
- sisällyttää verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
- subsumoida verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
French
4 entries- colliger verb (to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule)
- généraliser verb (to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule)
- impliquer verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
- rejoindre verb (to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule)
German
4 entries- einordnen verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
- fassen verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
- klassifizieren verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
- subsumieren verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
Greek
2 entries- εντάσσω verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
- υπάγω verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
Irish
1 entries- fo-ghlac verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
Italian
3 entries- classificare verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
- contenere verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
- includere verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
Portuguese
3 entries- classificar verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
- incluir verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
- subordinar verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
Russian
1 entries- включа́ть в какую-л. категорию verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- podvòditi verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
- uključívati verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
- подво̀дити verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
- укључи́вати verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
Spanish
2 entries- subsumir verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
- subsumir verb (to consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule)
Swedish
1 entries- sammanfatta verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
Turkish
4 entries- dâhil etmek verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
- ihtivâ etmek verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
- içine almak verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
- kapsamak verb (to place under another as belonging to it)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
The agreement does not subsume any previous agreement.
Source: tatoeba (9764373)
Ukraine has already succeeded, because the principal aim that President Putin brought to this, in his own words, was to fully subsume Ukraine back into Russia, to take away its sovereignty and independence, and that has not happened and clearly will not happen.
Source: tatoeba (13437464)
Near-synonym: comprise
Source: wiktionary
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