resubordinate

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

re- +‎ subordinate

Verb[edit]

resubordinate (third-person singular simple present resubordinates, present participle resubordinating, simple past and past participle resubordinated)

  1. To subordinate again; to make once again subordinate.
    • 2007, Sean Brayton, “MTV's Jackass: Transgression, Abjection and the Economy of White Masculinity”, in Journal of Gender Studies, volume 16, page 60:
      Although representations of abject white masculinity in Jackass are potentially valid critiques of working-class subjugation, they may also resubordinate the historically marginalized through erasure. In other words, the victimized white male is depicted in a way that subsumes the variegated histories of racial, gender, and sexual ‘minorities’.