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In some senses, adjunct is marked as dated, informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
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.
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 […]
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.
An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
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
Connected in a subordinate function.
Though that my death were adiunct to my Act, By heauen I would doe it.
Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.
verb
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.