auxiliary
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
auxiliary /ɔːgˈzɪlɪəri, ɒg-/
▶adjective providing additional help or support. ▶noun (pl. auxiliaries) an auxiliary person or thing.
■ N. Amer. a group of volunteers who assist a church, hospital, etc. with charitable activities.
– origin ME: from L. auxiliarius, from auxilium ‘help’.
'auxiliary' also found in these Oxford entries:
adjunct
- afterburner
- auxiliary verb
- be
- blue ensign
- cache
- cutter
- do
- donkey engine
- have
- modal verb
- not
- -n't
- ought
- paralegal
- retrorocket
- RFA
- simple
- use
- veena
- Waaf
