suborder

From sub- + order.

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suborder (plural suborders)

1. (taxonomy) A taxonomic category below order and above infraorder.

   Synonym: subordo

2. (business) A secondary or subsidiary order (purchase request).
3. Synonym of subordering.

• → Dutch: suborde

suborder (third-person singular simple present suborders, present participle subordering, simple past and past participle subordered)

1. (transitive) To arrange in a secondary order.

   The customers were sorted by name and then subordered by number of purchases.

• Brodeurs, bordures, bourders