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Meaning of subservient

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  subservient
      adj 1: compliant and obedient to authority; "editors and
             journalists who express opinions in print that are
             opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and
             replaced by subservient ones"-G. B. Shaw
      2: serving or acting as a means or aid; "instrumental in solving
         the crime" [syn: {implemental}, {instrumental},
         {subservient}]
      3: abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant;
         "slavish devotion to her job ruled her life"; "a slavish yes-
         man to the party bosses"- S.H.Adams; "she has become
         submissive and subservient" [syn: {slavish}, {subservient},
         {submissive}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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