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adjunct
[ aj-uhngkt ]
noun
- something added to another thing but not essential to it.
Synonyms: supplement, appendix
- a person associated with lesser status, rank, authority, etc., in some duty or service; assistant.
- a person working at an institution, as a college or university, without having full or permanent status:
My lawyer works two nights a week as an adjunct, teaching business law at the college.
- Grammar. a modifying form, word, or phrase depending on some other form, word, or phrase, especially an element of clause structure with adverbial function.
adjective
- joined or associated, especially in an auxiliary or subordinate relationship.
- attached or belonging without full or permanent status:
an adjunct surgeon on the hospital staff.
adjunct
/ əˈdʒʌŋktɪv; ˈædʒʌŋkt /
noun
- something incidental or not essential that is added to something else
- a person who is subordinate to another
- grammar
- part of a sentence other than the subject or the predicate
- (in systemic grammar) part of a sentence other than the subject, predicator, object, or complement; usually a prepositional or adverbial group
- part of a sentence that may be omitted without making the sentence ungrammatical; a modifier
- See accidentlogic another name for accident
adjective
- added or connected in a secondary or subordinate position; auxiliary
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Derived Forms
- adjunctive, adjective
- ˈadjunctly, adverb
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Other Words From
- ad·junctly adverb
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of adjunct1
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Example Sentences
She appeared at his side, impish smile in place, dutiful, fragrantly rather than ferociously sexy, and—frustratingly—an adjunct.
At first Wales and Sanger conceived of Wikipedia merely as an adjunct to Nupedia, sort of like a feeder product or farm team.
Bouts of landays may be a formal part of a family gathering or may emerge more spontaneously as an adjunct to collective labor.
“They got letters,” says Simo Muir, adjunct professor of Jewish Studies at Helsinki University.
The students I teach as an adjunct are pointed toward midlevel careers.
The arm in these childish drawings early develops the interesting adjunct of a hand.
As an adjunct of the policy of the deterrent workhouse for the able-bodied, we have to note the coming-in of compulsory detection.
"We must have a real door," said Shorty, looking critically at the strip of canvas that did duty for that important adjunct.
It will prove itself a most valuable adjunct to the excellent course of instruction given in our public schools.
Clarté, in fact, forms an adjunct of the Grand Orient and owns a lodge under its jurisdiction in Paris.
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