Auxiliary

Definition: Auxiliary

Auxiliary

Adjective

1. Functioning in a subsidiary or supporting capacity; "the main library and its auxiliary branches".

2. Relating to something that is added but is not essential; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxilliary to each other".

Noun

1. Someone who acts as assistant.

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Date "auxiliary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Mining

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Synonyms: Auxiliary

Aid

Adjective: aiding; Verb: auxiliary, adjuvant, helpful; coadjuvant; subservient, ministrant, ancillary, accessory, subsidiary.

Auxiliary

Noun: auxiliary; recruit; assistant; adjuvant, adjutant; ayudante, coaid; adjunct; help, helper, help mate, helping hand; midwife; colleague, partner, mate, confrere, cooperator; coadjutor, coadjutrix; collaborator.

Benefactor

Noun: benefactor, savior, good genius, tutelary saint, guardian angel, good Samaritan; pater patriae; salt of the earth; (good man); auxiliary.

Combatant

Armed force, troops, soldiery, military forces, sabaoth, the army, standing army, regulars, the line, troops of the line, militia, yeomanry, volunteers, trainband, fencible; auxiliary, bersagliere, brave; garde-nationale, garde-royale; minuteman; auxiliary forces, reserve forces; reserves, posse comitatus, national guard, gendarme, beefeater; guards, guardsman; yeomen of the guard, life guards, household troops.

Crosswords: Auxiliary

My auxiliary tool kit, I forgot all about it. It must have fallen out of my pocket (Wild Wild West; writing credit: Jim Thomas; John Thomas)

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References

• The World Market for Auxiliary Plant for Use with Steam Generating and Central Heating Boilers and Condensers for Steam or Other Vapor Power Units: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• America's Space Shuttle: Auxiliary Power Unit (APU)/Hydraulic and Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) NASA Astronaut Training Manual (reference)

• Austrian Auxiliary Troops 1792-1816 (Men-At-Arms , No 299) (reference)

• History of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and Ladies' Auxiliary (reference)

• Kent's own : the history of 500 (County of Kent) Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force (reference)

• Linguistic Categories: Auxiliaries and Related Puzzles: The Scope, Order, and Distribution of English Auxiliary Verbs (reference)

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High Tech

• Paradyne Auxiliary Back Panel (1 Per 8 Slots) (reference)

• SUPERIOR COMMUNICATIONS 41351 Lithium Ion Auxiliary Battery for StarTAC (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Accu-Sharp AS502-503 Jig with Auxiliary Table (reference)

• Delta 11-091 Auxiliary Table (reference)

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Auxiliary vessels of the Coast and Geodetic Survey 1942. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A small menhaden vessel with auxiliary boats being towed astern. Credit: Fisheries.

A menhaden mother vessel with auxiliary boats astern. Credit: Fisheries.

Dive operations from auxiliary small-craft off the NOAA Ship FERREL. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

NOAA Auxiliary Research Vessel VIRGINIA KEY ARV80 off Miami. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

The chiropodist is a medical auxiliary qualified to treat superficial foot complaints ... / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by E. Mandelmann..

A recently graduated auxiliary nurse midwife holding a healthy young baby. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Homer Page..

At Pearl Harbor, circa 1918. Ships in the background are USS Monadnock (BM-3) and probably USS Navajo (1908-1948). This auxiliary schooner, built in 1914, was formerly a German vessel. Taken over at Honolulu under an executive order on 27 September 1917, she was soon put into service and formally commissioned on 1 April 1918 as USS Hermes. She was sold on 21 October 1926. Credit: NAVY.

Underway during the 1960s. The A-frame on the starboard side just aft of the superstructure is for her auxiliary research winch, which had 5,000 feet of cable and a 10,000 pound maximum load. Credit: NAVY.

Speed them back--Join the WAAC--Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. U.S. Army--Apply at any U.S. Army recruiting and induction station. Credit: Library of Congress.

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The German auxiliary cruisers and fleet auxiliaries enumerated below will be disarmed and treated as merchant ships. (reference)

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Health

Education on the topic of urinary incontinence should also be a part of the training programs for paraprofessional students such as licensed vocational nurses, nurses aides, and auxiliary workers in the community. (references)

With the very high association of NIDDM with overnutrition and overweight (approximately 80 percent of patients), much dietary effort is directed to caloric reduction, with exercise as an auxiliary means to increase caloric loss and to assist in glucose regulation. (references)

Business

Most of the rest produce auxiliary products or pharma-chemicals. (references)

China's current auxiliary farm implement to tractor ratio is about 1 to 1.28, there is enough room for further development compared to that of most developed countries. (references)

During 1999, Guatemala exported 0.2 million in products, such as auxiliary plants for use with boilers, vapor generating boilers, and parts for auxiliary plants for boilers, mainly to El Salvador. (references)

Economic History

Brazil

The demand for auxiliary equipment concentrates mostly on items such as computerized feeders, silo loaders and gravimetric dosagers. (references)

Ukraine

A representative office can carry out marketing, promotional, and other auxiliary and preparatory functions on behalf of the company. (references)

Singapore

The engine and power generation sub-sector has extensive capabilities in repair and overhaul of engines, auxiliary power units, engine components and nacelle. (references)

Human Rights

Guatemala

MINUGUA also noted an increase in the participation of municipal officials, particularly auxiliary mayors, in extrajudicial killings--primarily lynchings. (references)

Political Economy

Liechtenstein

The Interior Ministry effectively oversees the regular and auxiliary police forces, which are responsible for internal and external security. (references)

Mexico

The police forces, which include federal and state judicial police, the Federal Preventive Police (PFP), municipal police, and various police auxiliary forces, have primary responsibility for law enforcement and maintenance of order within the country. (references)

Trade

China

Processing Materials and Parts: Raw materials, components, spare parts, auxiliary materials, and packaging materials imported by FIEs for the production of goods which will be exported are exempt from customs duty and VAT. (references)

Worker Rights

Slovenia

It is quite common for nightclub owners to import illegally foreign nationals into the country and arrange work permits for them as auxiliary workers and dancers. (references)

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Expressions using "auxiliary": auxiliary account ♦ auxiliary air ♦ auxiliary airfield ♦ auxiliary arm ♦ auxiliary armament ♦ auxiliary attachment ♦ auxiliary boiler ♦ auxiliary carrier cable ♦ auxiliary circuit ♦ auxiliary contours ♦ auxiliary dam ♦ auxiliary energising quantity ♦ auxiliary energizing quantity ♦ auxiliary engine ♦ auxiliary equipment ♦ auxiliary fan ♦ auxiliary force ♦ auxiliary function ♦ auxiliary goods ♦ auxiliary hole ♦ auxiliary hydraulic system ♦ auxiliary information channel ♦ auxiliary lens ♦ auxiliary machinery ♦ auxiliary nurse ♦ auxiliary operation ♦ auxiliary power unit ♦ auxiliary pump ♦ auxiliary research submarine ♦ Auxiliary scales ♦ auxiliary staff ♦ auxiliary storage ♦ auxiliary store ♦ auxiliary subdivisions of form ♦ auxiliary troops ♦ Auxiliary verb ♦ Auxiliary verbs ♦ auxiliary view ♦ auxiliary washing preparations ♦ auxiliary wire ♦ modal auxiliary ♦ nursing auxiliary ♦ SALEM 817 auxiliary filter ♦ SALEM 818 auxiliary filter. Additional references.

Albanian

ndihmëtar, ndihmës (accessary, accessory, acolyte, adjunct, adjutant, adjuvant, aid, aide, ancillary, assistant, candle holder, coadjutant, coadjutor, first mate, gillie, help, helper, henchman, mate, paramedical, second, secondary, servo, sidekick, subsidiary, tutor), folje ndihmëse (link-verb). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مساعد (accessory, accomplice, advantageous, aid, ancillary, assistance, backing, beneficial, conducive, contributory, favorable, favourable, help, helpful, helpmate, propitious, serviceable, subsidiary, supplementary, support, useful), ‏إحتياطي (army reserve, margin, reservoir, spare, standing by), ‏إضافي (additional, ancillary, bonus, extra, false, farther, further, more, overtime, spare, special, subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary). (various references)

Bulgarian 

спомагателен глагол (copula), спомагателен (accessary, accessory, accidental, adjunct, ancillary, helping, pilot, servo-, subsidiary, supporting, tributary), помощник (acolyte, adjunct, adjuvant, affiliate, aid, aide, ally, assistant, candle holder, coadjutor, confederate, help, helper, lieutenant, mate, pander, second, secondary, subsidiary), помощен (adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, helping, pilot, pony, relief, servo-, subservient, subsidiary). (various references)

Chinese 

辅助 (Ancillary, Auxiliaries, Axillary), �" (to assist, to complement), 副 (assistant, deputy, secondary, vice-). (various references)

Czech

vojín pomocné služby, výpomocný (temporary), pomocný (ancillary, assistant, instrumental, subsidiary), podpùrný. (various references)

Danish

rovmide (linopodes mite, predaceous mite, predatory mite, red gamasid mite), rovinsekt (predaceous insect), indgang på forstærker til tilslutning af afspilningsudstyr (aux.), hjælp (aid, help). (various references)

Dutch

hulp- (auxilary). (various references)

Farsi 

معین (Accessory, Adjutant, Ally, Ancillary, Definite, Given, Positive, Precise, Punctual, Regular, Specific, Standard, Subsidiary), کمکی (Secondary, Subsidiary), کمک دهنده , امدادی . (various references)

Finnish

apuverbi, luontainen vihollinen. (various references)

French

auxiliaire. (various references)

German

hilfs- (ancillary, under-). (various references)

Greek 

βοηθητικόσ (ancillary, assistant, collateral, helpful), βοηθητικός (ancillary), ωφέλιμος (beneficial). (various references)

Hebrew 

לואי (accompanying, adjunct, attachment, attribute, if, if only, secondary, would that). (various references)

Hungarian

tartalék (backup, cushion, emergency man, loose part, provision, rear echelon, refill, reserve, spare, standby, store), segédige (auxiliary verb, do). (various references)

Indonesian

pembantu (accessory, aide, assistant, helper, stringer), bantu (assist, help). (various references)

Italian

ausiliario (ancillary, subsidiary), ausiliare. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

附属 (affiliated, annexed, associated, attached, belonging, dependent, incidental, subordinate), 補助　 (aid, assistance, support), 補助 (aid, assistance, support), 副 (above all, additional, assistant, associate, collateral, copy, deputy, duplicate, especially, sub-, substitute, supplementary, vice-), 付属 (affiliated, annexed, associated, attached, belonging, dependent, incidental, subordinate). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふぞく (affiliated, annexed, associated, attached, belonging, dependent, incidental, subordinate), ふく (additional, assistant, associate, bend down, clothes, collateral, compound, copy, crawl, crouch, deputy, double, duplicate, fall prostrate, good fortune, hide, lie down, prostrate oneself, stoop, sub-, submit to, substitute, supplementary, to blow, to dry, to emit, to spout, to wipe, vice-, yield to), ほじょ (aid, assistance, support). (various references)

Korean 

보조 (Ancillary, Cadence). (various references)

Manx

fer coonee (adjutant, aider, ally, collaborator, confederate, helper, relief). (various references)

Pig Latin

auxiliaryay.(various references)

Portuguese

auxiliar (accessorial, accomodate, adjunct, adjuvant, aid, ancillary, assist, assistant, auxilary, avail, back, cad, candle-holder, favor, favour, friend, hand, handy man, help, helper, lend a hand, minister, ministerial, patronize, preventer, protect, relieve, second, secondary, subsidiary, succor, succour, support). (various references)

Romanian

auxiliar (accidental, additional, adjuvant, ancillary, assistant, subsidiary, supplementary), ajutor (abettor, accommodation, accomplice, adjoint, adjunct, adjutancy, adjutant, adjuvant, adminicle, aid, ancillary, assistance, assistant, backer, backing, collaboration, contribution, co-operation, deputy, easement, fire, friend, furtherance, help, helper, helpfulness, helping, mate, means, ministrant, office, redress, refuge, relief, remedy, rescue, salvation, saver, second, service, sos, staff, stand by, stead, succor, succour, support, supporter, sustainer, upholder), ajutãtor (accessary, additional, adjuvant, assistant, helpful, helping, pony, secondary, subordinate, supplementary), verb auxiliar, trupe militare strãine, suplimentar (accessary, additional, adjective, adscititious, circumstantial, extra, further, incidental, odd, supernumerary, supplemental, supplementary), subsidiar (subsidiary). (various references)

Russian 

вспомогательный (accessorial, adjuvant, ancillary, backed-up, intermediate, pilot, pony, relief, service, servo, subsidiary, supplementary), помощник вспомогательный, помощник (acolyte, adjutant, adjuvant, aid, aide, aider, assistant, assistant secretaries, candle holder, farm hand, farmhand, help, helper, helpmate, mate, second, troubleshooter), дополнительный (additional, addl additional, adscititious, anytime more, complementary, excess, extra, further, more, new, obverse, optional, run on, supplemental, supplementary). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pomoćni (adjunct, adventitious, ancillary, appurtenant, relief, subsidiary, suffragan). (various references)

Spanish

auxiliar (adjuvant, aid, ancillary, assistant, help, helper, subsidiary). (various references)

Swedish

assistant (assistant, clerical officer), reserv- (stand by), nyttodjur, hjälpare (aid, assistant, backer, booster, helper, helpmate, paraclete), hjälpande (helping), hjälp- (ancillary, assistant, remedial, subsidiary). (various references)

Thai

เสริม (reenforce), เครื่องสนับสนุน, สำรอง (aside). (various references)

Turkish

yardımcı fiil (auxiliary verb), yardımcı (accessary, accessory, acolyte, adjunct, aid, aide, ancillary, assistant, Band aid, booster, coadjutor, collateral, contributory, cooperative, deputy, donkey, friend, help, helper, helpful, helpmate, helpmeet, henchman, lieutenant, obliging, second, sidekick, stand by, sub, subsidiary, suffragan, supporter, supporting, vice-). (various references)

Ukrainian

запасний (alternate, duplicate, emergency, occasional, reserve, reserved, spare), аварійний (jury, wrecking), помічник (acolyte, adjunct, adjutant, adjuvant, aid, ally, assistant, candle holder, contributor, help, helper, helpmate, second, secondary, seconder, subsidiary, tender), допоміжн�" ді�"слово, допоміжний (accessary, accessorial, accessory, adjuvant, collateral, emergency, intermediate, ministerial, pilot, secondary, subsidiary, utility), додатковий (accessary, accessory, accidental, additional, adventitious, appendant, appendical, collateral, complementary, expletive, extra, further, more, new, novel, obverse, odd, other, plus, pony, second, secondary, supernumerary, supplemental, supplementary, surplus). (various references)

Vietnamese 

phụ (accessary, accessory, assistant, associate, bye, extra, secondary, subordinate, subsidiary), người giúp đỡ (adjuvant, assistant, backer, ministrant), máy phụ, bổ trợ (ministerial). (various references)

Welsh

ategol (confirming, corroborative, supporting), cynorthwywr (accessory, assistant, helper), cynorthwyol (accessory, assistant). (various references)

auxiliare, auxiliaris. (various references)

Misspellings

"Auxiliary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: auxialiary, auxilaary, auxilarry, auxilary, auxilery, auxilia, auxilio, auxilirary, auxilitary, auxillary, auxilliary, axiliary, obiliary. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: airily.

-4 letters: aalii, alary, aliya, aural, axial, laari, laura, riyal, urial.

-5 letters: airy, alar, aria, aril, aryl, aura, axal, axil, ilia, ixia, lair, lari, liar, lira, liri, raia, rail, raya, rial, ruly.