a construction that is part of a sentence but not essential to its meaning and can be omitted without making the sentence ungrammatical;
something added to another thing but not an essential part of it;
a person who is an assistant or subordinate to another;
of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another;
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";
