auxiliary
/ɔɡˈzɪl.(jə).ɹi/ adjective B1- Helping; giving assistance or support. · auxiliary troops
- Supplementary or subsidiary.
- Held in reserve for exceptional circumstances.
- Of a ship, having both sails and an engine.
- Relating to an auxiliary verb.
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She was a notable housewife; her work was always done and well done; she “ran” the Sewing Circle, helped run the Sunday-school, and was the strongest prop of the Church Aid Society and Foreign Missions Auxiliary.
The girl, after leaving her entertainer, sped swiftly cross-town until she arrived at a handsome and sedate mansion two squares to the east, facing on that avenue which is the highway of Mammon and the auxiliary gods.
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