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Adjective
/ôgˈzilyərē/,/-ˈzil(ə)rē/,
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Providing supplementary or additional help and support,
  1. Providing supplementary or additional help and support
    • - an auxiliary nurse
    • - auxiliary airport staff
  2. (of equipment) Held in reserve
    • - the ship has an auxiliary power source
  3. (of troops) Engaged in the service of a nation at war but not part of the regular army, and often of foreign origin

  4. (of a sailing vessel) Equipped with a supplementary engine

Noun
  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. functioning in a supporting capacity; "the main library and its auxiliary branches"
  2. aide: someone who acts as assistant
  3. accessory: furnishing added support; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other"
  4. 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. ...
  5. (Auxiliaries) 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. ...
  6. A person or group that acts in an auxiliary manner; A sailing vessel equipped with an engine; An auxiliary verb; A marching band colorguard; Helping; giving assistance or support; Supplementary or subsidiary; Held in reserve for exceptional circumstances; Of a ship, having both sails and an ...
  7. (Auxiliaries) 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.
  8. (Auxiliaries) 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.
  9. (Auxiliaries) 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.
  10. (Auxiliaries) 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. ...
  11. (auxiliaries) 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”.
  12. Other family members, usually children or spouse, to whom additional monthly benefits may be payable on the earnings record of a person entitled to Social Security benefits.
  13. A second method of propelling a vessel. On a sailboat this could be an engine.
  14. In English, one of a small set of verb-like words which can precede a main verb in a verb phrase. The auxiliaries and verbs are sometimes said to form a 'verb group' or 'compound verb'. Examples of auxiliaries are do in I really do not know, or may in I may see him tomorrow. ...
  15. In unconventional warfare, that element of the resistance force established to provide the organized civilian support of the resistance movement.
  16. Indicates the attributes that the entry may have.
  17. In military usage, a soldier recruited from a foreign territory.
  18. A gasoline or diesel engine which allows the lift to run in the event of power failure or problem with the main motor.
  19. Work State. A work state other than actively handling calls.  As an example, agents may go into an auxiliary work state to process paperwork or emails.  Agents will not receive calls while in auxiliary work state.
  20. Revenue from an entity that exists to furnish goods and services to students, faculty, or staff and charge a fee directly related to its operations. Auxiliary enterprises include residence halls, food service, bookstores, etc. Auxiliary cost centers begin with 43.
  21. Additionally, supplementary. Equipment or component that is added to the main propulsion unit.
  22. An engine used as secondary propulsion in a sailboat
  23. Another term for the color guard.  This term is often used in the marching band setting to describe the visual ensemble which may include color guard but which also may include other visual performers such as a dance team, baton twirlers or pom poms. ...
  24. Synonym for a reserve parachute, especially on a tandem harness.
  25. You use auxiliary classes to mix and match. An auxiliary class augments the other object classes of an entry without the costs tied to inheritance. The auxiliary class is never involved in inheritance because it is never the super class for a structural or abstract class. ...