sub-assembly
- n a unit assembled separately but designed to fit with other units in a manufactured product
- What motor makers can do in slow seasons is to build up inventories of parts, particularly sub-assembly jobs like axles, motors, transmissions.
- Oswald Jacoby's wife, Tennist Mary Zita McHale, got a job as a factory hand (hydraulic sub-assembly work) in the Dallas plant of North American Aviation.