verb
- to include or incorporate something as part of a larger group or category
Usage: formal
Examples
- The new policy will subsume all previous regulations on this matter.
- Her research on mammals subsumes several earlier studies on primates.
- The company’s expansion plan subsumes three smaller competitors.
- This broader theory subsumes the earlier hypothesis as a special case.
- The department decided to subsume the smaller program into the main curriculum.
- The merger will subsume both companies under a single corporate structure.