Usually means: Providing additional help and support.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word auxiliary:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. auxiliary: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. auxiliary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. auxiliary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. auxiliary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. auxiliary: Vocabulary.com
  6. Auxiliary, auxiliary: Wordnik
  7. auxiliary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. auxiliary: Wiktionary
  9. auxiliary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. auxiliary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. auxiliary: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. auxiliary: Dictionary.com
  13. auxiliary (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. auxiliary: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Auxiliary (Roman military), Auxiliary (disambiguation), Auxiliary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Auxiliary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. auxiliary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. auxiliary: Rhymezone
  19. auxiliary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. auxiliary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. auxiliary: Free Dictionary
  22. auxiliary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. auxiliary: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. auxiliary: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUXILIARY: Band Terms

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. auxiliary: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. auxiliary: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Auxiliary: MedFriendly Glossary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. auxiliary: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. auxiliary: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See auxiliaries as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Helping; giving assistance or support.
adjective:  Supplementary or subsidiary.
adjective:  Held in reserve for exceptional circumstances.
adjective:  (nautical) Of a ship, having both sails and an engine.
adjective:  (grammar) Relating to an auxiliary verb.
noun:  A person or group that acts in an auxiliary manner.
noun:  A sailing vessel equipped with an engine.
noun:  (grammar) An auxiliary verb.
noun:  A marching band colorguard.

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