underlings

基本解释

See if you can get one of your underlings (or friends or little brother or whatever) to do it instead.
看下能不能让你的下属（朋友、兄弟等）替你去做。
We are your brothers and sisters, your parents and children, your superiors and your underlings. We are the concerned citizens standing next to you.
我们可以是你们的兄弟或姊妹、父母或子女、上司或下属，我们是在你身边的对社会保持关注的公民。
To me, the fact that you are worrying about it makes you morally superior to all the managers who routinely run down their underlings without a second thought.
在我看来，你对此感到担心的事实，就证明你的道德水平高于所有那些通常不假思索就会贬低下属的经理。

In face of sagging approval ratings, Russia's president also disciplined underlings.
What it meant was that in principle, your power was greater than any challenge that could come from those underlings, those craven reptiles in your imagination over whom you ruled.
这意味着在原则上,你的权利大到,不会受到属下的任何质疑,在你的眼里他们应该是低声下气的应声虫
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They report his righteous outrage when he learns of the mistakes of his underlings.
FORBES: Press Letting Obama Off As Bystander President
Leaders who seek advice from underlings, even very junior staff, make better, more informed decisions.
FORBES: Good Managers Listen. Great Managers Ask Questions.

You refer to someone as an underling when they are inferior in rank or status to someone else and take orders from them. You use this word to show that you do not respect someone.