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1 —as in:
adjunct faculty

Definition

something added to another thing, but not an essential part of it

She is an adjunct professor who teaches just one class.

adjunct = something added to another thing, but not an essential part of it

Other Uses (with this meaning)

My way led through Pleasant Meadow, an adjunct of the Baker Farm...
Thoreau, Henry David -- Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Though that my death were adjunct to my act,
By heaven, I would do it.
Shakespeare, William -- King John
...finally told him what to do that night he forgot about it and didn't know that he still had it) and told Grandfather—told him, mind; not excusing, asking for no pity; not explaining, asking for no exculpation: just told Grandfather how he had put his first wife aside like eleventh and twelfth century kings did: 'I found that she was not and could never be, through no fault of her own, adjunctive or incremental to the design which I had in mind, so I provided for her and put her aside.'
William Faulkner -- Absalom, Absalom!

(editor's note: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.)

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2 —as in:
called for his adjunct

Definition

a person who is an assistant or subordinate to another

I spoke with her adjunct.

adjunct = assistant or subordinate

Now they were merely adjuncts.
Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville -- The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

adjuncts = assistants or subordinates

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Less commonly:

More specifically, in grammar or linguistics, an adjunct can refer to a part of a sentence that, when removed, will not affect the remainder of the sentence. For example, the sentence "Joan jogged in Central Park on Sunday," has two adjuncts: "in Central Park" and "on Sunday".

The phrases adjunct faculty or adjunct staff can mean both that the employees are in a support role and that they are on temporary assignment.

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