adjunct

UK /ˈæd͡ʒ.ʌŋkt/ US /ˈæd͡ʒ.ʌŋkt/
noun 5adj 2verb 1

Definitions

noun

1

An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.

Lie here ye weedes that I diſdaine to weare, This compleat armor, and this curtle-axe / Are adiuncts more beſeeming Tamburlaine.

Learning is but an adiunct to our ſelfe, And where we are, our Learning likewiſe is.

2

A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.

[H]e made him the aſſociate of his Heir apparant, together vvith the nevv Lord Cottington (as an adjunct of ſingular experience and truſt) in forraine travailes, and in a buſineſſe of Love, and of no equall hazzard […]

3

Ellipsis of adjunct professor.

I've been given the chance to do this through my own department and through university programmes that don't have tenure-track lines and are therefore more likely to seek assistance from adjuncts.

4

An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.

5

A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.

adj

1

Connected in a subordinate function.

Though that my death were adiunct to my Act, By heauen I would doe it.

2

Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.

verb

1

To work as an adjunct professor.

I also nannied through the first part of graduate school. I had friends who bartended or worked at a wine store and also adjuncted. A lot of people would package these jobs together.

A sudden fantasy emerges of Adam adjuncting at Hannah's college, a sweet Mr. Mom to Paul-Louis' (Riz Ahmed) baby while Hannah becomes a professor slash internet celeb -- but there I go writing fanfiction.

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