Legal Definition and Related Resources of Subsidiary

As applied to a corporation , it is one that is controlled by another corporation. For legal purposes, a subsidiary corporation is a distinct legal entity from the parent corporation.

A foreign-based affiliate that is a separately incorporated entity under the host country’s law.

Any organization controlled by another with more than 50 percent of its whose voting capital held by the latter.

noun

• adjuvant
• aiding
• assistant
• auxiliary
• cooperating
• helping
• secondary
• subordinate
• subservient
• subsidiarius
• supplemental
• supplementary Associated Concepts: subsidiary corporation

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Collateral Security, Parent-corporation.

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Legal English Vocabulary: Subsidiary in Spanish

Online translation of the English legal term subsidiary into Spanish: subsidiaria (English to Spanish translation) . More about legal dictionary from english to spanish online.

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Subsidiary Definition (in the Accounting Vocabulary)

The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants offers the following definition of Subsidiary in a way that is easy for anybody to understand: COMPANY of which more than 50% of the voting shares are owned by another CORPORATION, called the PARENT COMPANY.

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See Also

• Enterprise
• Joint Enterprise
• Joint Venture

Hierarchical Display of Subsidiary

Business And Competition > Business organisation > Company structure > Establishment
Business And Competition > Business classification > Type of business > Multinational enterprise
Business And Competition > Business organisation > Economic concentration > Shareholding > Joint subsidiary

Meaning of Subsidiary

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Translation of Subsidiary

• Spanish: Filial
• French: Filiale
• German: Tochtergesellschaft
• Italian: Filiale
• Portuguese: Filial
• Polish: Przedsiębiorstwo zależne

Thesaurus of Subsidiary

Business And Competition > Business organisation > Company structure > Establishment > Subsidiary
Business And Competition > Business classification > Type of business > Multinational enterprise > Subsidiary
Business And Competition > Business organisation > Economic concentration > Shareholding > Joint subsidiary > Subsidiary

See also

• Multinational enterprise
• Joint subsidiary