Auxiliary
adjective
Providing additional help or support.
The school has an auxiliary staff members to help students with special needs.
Often appears as...
- auxiliary verb
- auxiliary function
noun
A person or thing that provides additional help or support.
Wood is an auxiliary to many people who live in the forest areas.
Often appears as...
- auxiliary force
- auxiliary equipment
adjective
Used to describe a verb that is used with another verb to show tense, questions etc., such as 'be', 'do', and 'have' in English.
In the sentence 'Have you been there?', 'have' and 'been' both are auxiliary verbs.
Often appears as...
- auxiliary verb
- auxiliary do
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A group of people providing supplementary help or support.
The medical auxiliary was on standby during the annual sports event.
Often appears as...
- auxiliary unit
- auxiliary members
adjective
Providing additional help or support.
The school has an auxiliary staff members to help students with special needs.
Often appears as...
- auxiliary verb
- auxiliary function
noun
A person or thing that provides additional help or support.
Wood is an auxiliary to many people who live in the forest areas.
Often appears as...
- auxiliary force
- auxiliary equipment
adjective
Used to describe a verb that is used with another verb to show tense, questions etc., such as 'be', 'do', and 'have' in English.
In the sentence 'Have you been there?', 'have' and 'been' both are auxiliary verbs.
Often appears as...
- auxiliary verb
- auxiliary do
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A group of people providing supplementary help or support.
The medical auxiliary was on standby during the annual sports event.
Often appears as...
- auxiliary unit
- auxiliary members
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Supportive Nature
Emphasizes the non-primary, helping role in various situations.
She works as an auxiliary nurse, supporting the medical team.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Frontline
Indicates a secondary role, not the main or central element.
Auxiliary police officers aid the regular force during large events.
Pro Tip 1/2Supportive Nature
Emphasizes the non-primary, helping role in various situations.
She works as an auxiliary nurse, supporting the medical team.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Frontline
Indicates a secondary role, not the main or central element.
Auxiliary police officers aid the regular force during large events.
Pro Tip 1/2Supportive Nature
Emphasizes the non-primary, helping role in various situations.
She works as an auxiliary nurse, supporting the medical team.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Frontline
Indicates a secondary role, not the main or central element.
Auxiliary police officers aid the regular force during large events.
Compare with
accessoryadditionalback upcomplementarysecondarysubsidiarysupplementarysupport
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How many verb tenses are...
with auxiliary words, like would or did, or by specifying the time they mean. Are the variations from language to language just differents ways of describing the same fundamental reality? Or do their diverse structures reflect different ways of thinking about the world and even time itself?
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The Sinking of the SS...
he realizes that something is wrong. They check the silhouette of the large ship against the Lloyd's Register of vessels. When he saw the scene of action, he realized that he was mistaken. It wasn't an auxiliary cruiser.
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The habits of happiness...
to have access to information, education, to be able to travel, to have freedom. It's highly desirable. However, this is not enough. Those are just auxiliary, help conditions.
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How many verb tenses are...
with auxiliary words, like would or did, or by specifying the time they mean. Are the variations from language to language just differents ways of describing the same fundamental reality? Or do their diverse structures reflect different ways of thinking about the world and even time itself?
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The Sinking of the SS...
he realizes that something is wrong. They check the silhouette of the large ship against the Lloyd's Register of vessels. When he saw the scene of action, he realized that he was mistaken. It wasn't an auxiliary cruiser.
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The habits of happiness...
to have access to information, education, to be able to travel, to have freedom. It's highly desirable. However, this is not enough. Those are just auxiliary, help conditions.
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Quote examples
Levi Woodbury
American Judge
It is essential to the pure and peaceful administration of justice that all its officers keep carefully within the boundaries of their constitutional powers. Auxiliary to this, but not secondary in importance, is a due knowledge of the leading subjects for their inquiry and decision.
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Chrysippus
Greek Philosopher
Of causes, some are complete and primary, others auxiliary and proximate. Hence, when we say that all things come about through fate by antecedent causes, we do not mean this to be understood as 'by complete and primary causes,' but 'by auxiliary and proximate causes.
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David Olusoga
British Historian
As well as remembering the service of the non-white soldiers and auxiliaries of the first world war, we have also to remember what happened to them and their dreams of justice in the months and years after the armistice.
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Sigmund Freud
Austrian Psychologist
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
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William Scranton
American Politician
When I started walking and I looked down and I saw on the floor this water, which looked like, you know, water in your basement except it happened to be in the auxiliary building of a nuclear power plant.
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Jim Root
American Musician
With 'Iowa,' if you ask me, we really passed up a lot of things that we could have done with the two auxiliary drummers. I mean they hardly touched their drums on that album.
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Otto Schily
German Public Servant
The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force.
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Rick Smolan
American Photographer
I think we're going to have auxiliary hard drives to offload our memories.
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George Eliot
British Author
Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.
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Levi Woodbury
American Judge
It is essential to the pure and peaceful administration of justice that all its officers keep carefully within the boundaries of their constitutional powers. Auxiliary to this, but not secondary in importance, is a due knowledge of the leading subjects for their inquiry and decision.
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Chrysippus
Greek Philosopher
Of causes, some are complete and primary, others auxiliary and proximate. Hence, when we say that all things come about through fate by antecedent causes, we do not mean this to be understood as 'by complete and primary causes,' but 'by auxiliary and proximate causes.
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David Olusoga
British Historian
As well as remembering the service of the non-white soldiers and auxiliaries of the first world war, we have also to remember what happened to them and their dreams of justice in the months and years after the armistice.
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Sigmund Freud
Austrian Psychologist
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
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William Scranton
American Politician
When I started walking and I looked down and I saw on the floor this water, which looked like, you know, water in your basement except it happened to be in the auxiliary building of a nuclear power plant.
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Jim Root
American Musician
With 'Iowa,' if you ask me, we really passed up a lot of things that we could have done with the two auxiliary drummers. I mean they hardly touched their drums on that album.
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Otto Schily
German Public Servant
The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force.
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Rick Smolan
American Photographer
I think we're going to have auxiliary hard drives to offload our memories.
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George Eliot
British Author
Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.
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