9 October 2017
adjunct
[aj-uhngkt]
noun
1. something added to another thing but not essential to it.
2. a person associated with lesser status, rank, authority, etc., in some duty or service; assistant.
3. 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.
4. 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
5. joined or associated, especially in an auxiliary or subordinate relationship.
6. attached or belonging without full or permanent status:
an adjunct surgeon on the hospital staff.
Origin of adjunct
Latin
1580-1590; Latin adjunctus joined to (past participle of adjungere), equivalent to ad- ad- + jung- (nasal variant of jug- yoke1) + -tus past participle suffix
Related forms
adjunctly, adverb
Synonyms
1. appendix, supplement. 2. aide, attaché.
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Examples from the Web for adjunct
Contemporary Examples
She appeared at his side, impish smile in place, dutiful, fragrantly rather than ferociously sexy, and—frustratingly—an adjunct.
How Can Katie Holmes Escape Tom Cruise—and ‘Dawson’s Creek’?
Tim Teeman
October 29, 2014
At first Wales and Sanger conceived of Wikipedia merely as an adjunct to Nupedia, sort of like a feeder product or farm team.
You Can Look It Up: The Wikipedia Story
Walter Isaacson
October 18, 2014
Bouts of landays may be a formal part of a family gathering or may emerge more spontaneously as an adjunct to collective labor.
Beauty and Subversion in the Secret Poems of Afghan Women
Daniel Bosch
April 5, 2014
“They got letters,” says Simo Muir, adjunct professor of Jewish Studies at Helsinki University.
The Jews Who Fought for Hitler: ‘We Did Not Help the Germans. We Had a Common Enemy’
The Telegraph
March 9, 2014
The students I teach as an adjunct are pointed toward midlevel careers.
We Overvalue College
Professor X
September 10, 2011
Historical Examples
What remains of the former cathedral is now an adjunct to a hotel.
The Cathedrals of Northern France
Francis Miltoun
When I get a photograph I treasure it as an adjunct to the sketch.
Boy Scouts Handbook
Boy Scouts of America
As an adjunct to class work, the travelling library is proposed.
The Arena
Various
Sails can sometimes be used with advantage on the komatik as an adjunct.
A Labrador Doctor
Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
If the adjunct is placed elsewhere, different considerations apply.
“Stops”
Paul Allardyce
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Today’s quote
We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
– Che Guevara
On this day
9 October 1940 – birth of John Lennon. English guitarist and singer-songwriter for the Beatles. Murdered 8 December 1980.
9 October 1967 – death of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, Argentinian Marxist revolutionary, physician, author. Executed in Bolivia. Born 14 June 1928.
9 October 1969 – birth of P.J. Harvey, English musician.
9 October 1975 – Andrei Sakharov, Soviet dissident, wins Nobel Peace Prize.