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ancillary
[ an-suh-ler-eeor, especially British, an-sil-uh-ree ]
adjective
Your medical coverage includes physiotherapy, eye testing, and other ancillary services.
- auxiliary; assisting:
The bookkeeper serves in an ancillary role, supporting the treasurer.
noun
- something that serves in an ancillary capacity:
Downloadable ancillaries to the basic textbook, such as videos and worksheets, are on our website.
ancillary
/ ænˈsɪlərɪ /
adjective
- subsidiary
- auxiliary; supplementary
ancillary services
noun
- a subsidiary or auxiliary thing or person
the company has an ancillary abroad
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Example Sentences
But even as the music market goes global, the ancillary cost is a troubling conglomeratization of thought, style, and taste.
There are ancillary benefits to donating extra campaign cash, too, Miniutti said.
But what if winning is an ancillary goal to the financial health of the organization?
The first round failed to achieve any progress even on ancillary issues, such as humanitarian access to the besieged city of Homs.
The most sustainable impact—assuming there are no hitches legally—will be ancillary things like that.
To emphasize one idea, subordinate ancillary ideas; make them take their proper rank in the sentence.
It was odd how the word seemed to shape the act, though one knew how ancillary it really was.
But as philosophy is subsidiary and ancillary, it will be sufficient to set forth what is said about the Society's theologians.
This is the case among the leisure class and among certain portions of the population which are ancillary to that class.
It is as ancillary to the predaceous impulse proper that the belief in luck expresses itself in a wager.
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