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Noun
/ôgˈzilyərē/,/-ˈzil(ə)rē/,
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auxiliaries, plural;
  1. A person or thing providing supplementary or additional help and support
    • - a nursing auxiliary
    • - there are two main fuel tanks and two auxiliaries
  2. A group of volunteers giving supplementary support to an organization or institution
    • - members of the Volunteer Fire Department's women's auxiliary
  3. Troops engaged in the service of a nation at war but not part of the regular army, and often of foreign origin

  4. An auxiliary verb

  5. A naval vessel with a supporting role, not armed for combat

  1. An auxiliary force is a group affiliated with, but not part of, a military or police organization. In some cases, auxiliaries are armed forces operating in the same manner as regular soldiers. Most often, auxiliaries are civilian volunteer components supporting the main police or military force.
  2. Auxiliaries (from Latin: auxilia = "help") formed the standing non-citizen corps of the Roman army of the Principate (30 BC-284 AD), alongside the citizen legions. ...
  3. additional outputs on a mixing desk, used to create different ‘sub-mixes’ and send audio signal to other devices. An example of auxiliaries’ usage includes Monitor Mixes and sends to Reverb or Effects Units.
  4. Non-instrumentalists who march and dance with the band carrying flags, props, etc. Sometimes worth valuable extra points at marching contests, see Drill/Dance Teams.
  5. Those organizations of the Mormon Church such as Primary, Sunday School, and so on that are not essential for providing the ordinances of the Church, but rather assist by strengthening and teaching the membership.
  6. each Legion had a same size or near same size auxiliary which contained specialist units, engineers and pioneers, artillerymen and siege craftsmen, service and support units plus units made up of non-citizens (who were granted Roman citizenship upon discharge) and undesireables. ...
  7. words used in showing the tense and aspect of verbs. The contrast is with morphological change e.g. the simple past tense of “I walk” takes a morpheme which is the suffix “ed”. The continuous past uses an auxiliary “I was walking”.