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

• Littlewood subordination theorem
• Subordinate partition of unity in paracompact space