Ancillary
adjective
Supporting or helping a main thing or person, not as important as the main thing but still needed.
The school offers ancillary services like counseling and tutoring.
Often appears as...
- ancillary services
- ancillary staff
noun
Something that supports or is connected to a main thing or person.
The lawyer filed an ancillary to the main complaint.
Often appears as...
- ancillary benefits
- ancillary claims
adjective
Supporting or helping a main thing or person, not as important as the main thing but still needed.
The school offers ancillary services like counseling and tutoring.
Often appears as...
- ancillary services
- ancillary staff
noun
Something that supports or is connected to a main thing or person.
The lawyer filed an ancillary to the main complaint.
Often appears as...
- ancillary benefits
- ancillary claims
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Not Central
Use 'ancillary' to describe something important but not the main focus.
He provides ancillary support during project meetings.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Connotation
'Ancillary' often implies a helpful and supportive role.
The teacher's ancillary role is vital for student success.
Pro Tip 3/3Broad Usage
Can refer to support in various fields, like healthcare, education, or business.
Ancillary staff at hospitals are essential for patient care.
Pro Tip 1/3Not Central
Use 'ancillary' to describe something important but not the main focus.
He provides ancillary support during project meetings.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Connotation
'Ancillary' often implies a helpful and supportive role.
The teacher's ancillary role is vital for student success.
Pro Tip 3/3Broad Usage
Can refer to support in various fields, like healthcare, education, or business.
Ancillary staff at hospitals are essential for patient care.
Pro Tip 1/3Not Central
Use 'ancillary' to describe something important but not the main focus.
He provides ancillary support during project meetings.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Connotation
'Ancillary' often implies a helpful and supportive role.
The teacher's ancillary role is vital for student success.
Pro Tip 3/3Broad Usage
Can refer to support in various fields, like healthcare, education, or business.
Ancillary staff at hospitals are essential for patient care.
Compare with
additionalauxiliarycomplementarysecondarysubordinatesubsidiarysupplementarysupport
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New ways to understand...
often the least well-developed and in those cases we put out a huge amount of money to actually support the transformation that they can make to go digital for two reasons one its publicly safer in terms of health when we don't have to deal with cash and we can deal with as many contactless modes of payment as possible and a wonderful ancillary benefit that comes from that
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Making high quality...
ancillary healthcare technology training programs training people in e-coat echocardiography cadet officer and those kind of things now with that kind of training it gives people motivation because now they will get a bachelor's
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Safari Live - Day 222 PIPE...
scavenger and here it is sitting in amongst the less fancied vultures thinking to itself hearted I find myself amongst this sort of ancillary scum Pinilla nice all right while you're voting Jamie has left her Lions and I'm
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Irving Azoff
American Businessman
Since the traditional recorded-music business models have drastically changed, there is truly diminished income derived from recorded music by artists - both current and catalog. The touring industry has become much more important as a majority revenue stream and the ancillary fan experiences and promotions that may be derived from it.
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Andrew Lansley
British Politician
The vast majority of people who speak to me say they have had brilliant care. When they are critical, their concern tends not to be directed at the medical side but the ancillary things that surround it, such as helping patients to eat meals, cleanliness, and making sure that when patients have a problem, they are listened to.
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Prashant Bhushan
Indian Lawyer
It is argued by our GDP obsessed policy planners that eventually the money being made by the stock market operators or the IT industry would trickle down to the poor farmers in terms of ancillary jobs that would be created. But the fact is, that this has not happened, despite the boom in the stock market and the IT industry.
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Caroline Knapp
American Writer
Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone.
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George Newbern
American Actor
With Superman, super powers are just ancillary. It's that character, with all those principles and understanding... that's who he is right there. I think I tried to portray a sense of trust and power and charisma for Superman. That's what we believe Superman is.
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Jay Chandrasekhar
American Actor
Super Troopers' did well but not crazy-well theatrically. But it did so well after that it - in ancillary markets - that it became impossible for us to get away from it. We'd get pulled over by cops who would thank us and then would let us go.
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Walt Mossberg
American Journalist
As for the device we now call a TV or a cable box, I want it to be fast with a clean interface and seamlessly upgradeable to the latest software. I want it to be the primary source of all TV, not an ancillary device.
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Santiago Calatrava
Spanish Architect
Airports need an identity, a main hall that defines the dignity of the space and allows people to move fluidly throughout its ancillary parts.
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Jonathan Dimbleby
British Writer
In the world in which we live, truth is an ancillary virtue, but it shouldn't be.
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V. S. Naipaul
Trinidadian Novelist
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Irving Azoff
American Businessman
Since the traditional recorded-music business models have drastically changed, there is truly diminished income derived from recorded music by artists - both current and catalog. The touring industry has become much more important as a majority revenue stream and the ancillary fan experiences and promotions that may be derived from it.
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Andrew Lansley
British Politician
The vast majority of people who speak to me say they have had brilliant care. When they are critical, their concern tends not to be directed at the medical side but the ancillary things that surround it, such as helping patients to eat meals, cleanliness, and making sure that when patients have a problem, they are listened to.
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Prashant Bhushan
Indian Lawyer
It is argued by our GDP obsessed policy planners that eventually the money being made by the stock market operators or the IT industry would trickle down to the poor farmers in terms of ancillary jobs that would be created. But the fact is, that this has not happened, despite the boom in the stock market and the IT industry.
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Caroline Knapp
American Writer
Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone.
Quote examples
George Newbern
American Actor
With Superman, super powers are just ancillary. It's that character, with all those principles and understanding... that's who he is right there. I think I tried to portray a sense of trust and power and charisma for Superman. That's what we believe Superman is.
Quote examples
Jay Chandrasekhar
American Actor
Super Troopers' did well but not crazy-well theatrically. But it did so well after that it - in ancillary markets - that it became impossible for us to get away from it. We'd get pulled over by cops who would thank us and then would let us go.
Quote examples
Walt Mossberg
American Journalist
As for the device we now call a TV or a cable box, I want it to be fast with a clean interface and seamlessly upgradeable to the latest software. I want it to be the primary source of all TV, not an ancillary device.
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Santiago Calatrava
Spanish Architect
Airports need an identity, a main hall that defines the dignity of the space and allows people to move fluidly throughout its ancillary parts.
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Jonathan Dimbleby
British Writer
In the world in which we live, truth is an ancillary virtue, but it shouldn't be.
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V. S. Naipaul
Trinidadian Novelist
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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