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ORIGINAL: LuckyAlbatross

It really depends on the dynamics.  The most common answer is that the person is a switch- however, if the relationship dynamics are only topping, or playing, or housework, and any authority the sub has comes THROUGH the master, it's just a case of enjoying a toy without actually having authority.

In a similar way that a master can have one slave have some authority and responsibility over another slave he owns- he can have one slave have some authority and responsibility over another slave he doesn't own. 

Whether the slave/master consider that relationship to be the slave as the dom to the new slave, or just a fun toy to enjoy is up to them.

I think in more than a few cases, it is a situation in which a sub wants a free ride of the benefits of submission from another without the responsibility of dominance (though they would quickly sneer at any dom who tried to do so), or they are trying to avoid the stigma of labeling themselves a switch and handling that change in perspective.

But sometimes it really is just a case of a slave topping another, or a slave enjoying a toy without dominating, or a slave using the authority from the master.

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ORIGINAL: MagiksSlave
No offence Ma'am but what you are saying is not  a case of a sub owning another sub, which was the premise of the op but what you are saying here is the Master deligateing some power of one of HIS owned subs to another of HIS owned subs and to me that is just the sub that has that takes the power obaying her Master and not really haveing the power really so she is still beeing a sub becuase she is doing as directed this is not her really beeing Domanent because she wouldnt go and take that power on her own. What the op is saying is a sub owning another sub and that is just another way to say switch while what you are sugesting really isnt.

Magik's rambling slave

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ORIGINAL: Rumtiger

Maybe i'm going out on a limb here, but I think thats a switch.