Subordination may refer to
- Subordination in a hierarchy (in military, society, etc.)
- Insubordination, disobedience
- Subordination (linguistics)
- Subordination (finance)
- Subordination agreement, a legal document used to deprecate the claim of one party in favor of another
- Subordination (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse
In mathematics[edit]
- Littlewood subordination theorem
- Subordinate partition of unity in paracompact space