Meaning & use
Subsuming
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Including or absorbing something within a larger category, group, or set of rules.
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The new department was created by subsuming three smaller teams under one manager.
Her argument subsumes several earlier theories into a single unified framework.
A note on using this word
"Subsume" combines the Latin prefix "sub-" ("under") with "sumere" ("to take"), literally meaning to "take under" a broader classification.
Words with a similar meaning
incorporatingabsorbingencompassing
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Words with an opposite meaning
excludingseparating
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