sub‧jec‧tion /səbˈdʒekʃ
ən/
noun [uncountable] formal when a person or a group of people are controlled by a government or by another person
in subjection
The government used brute force to keep people in subjection.subjection to a period of subjection to Assyrian rulers the subjection of women [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲