Helping; giving assistance or support. / Supplementary or subsidiary. / Held in reserve for exceptional circumstances. / (nautical) Of a ship, having both sails and an engine.

A person or group that acts in an auxiliary manner. / A sailing vessel equipped with an engine. / (grammar) An auxiliary verb. / A marching band colorguard.

plural of auxiliary

plural of auxiliary cruiser

A person providing health care at a level junior to that of a nurse.

(computing) Synonym of secondary storage

(psychotherapy) A therapist or copatient who acts out a role in a patient's psychodrama.

plural of auxiliary ego

(grammar) The auxiliary verb that is combined with a past participle to form a compound perfect tense: in English, the verb have; in French, German, and Danish either the equivalent of have or the equivalent of be, depending on the verb.

(US, Navy) A naval oil tanker with the ability to perform underway replenishment of fuel oil or ship oil to ships of the fleet.