ancillary

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Retail space was to be "ancillary" - no more than 650,000 square feet in a 4.8 million square-foot project, including a second phase comprising a 500-room hotel and 1.8 million square feet of office space.

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  1. adjective Of secondary importance: "For Degas, sculpture was never more than ancillary to his painting” (Herbert Read).
  2. adjective Auxiliary; helping: an ancillary pump.
  3. noun Something, such as a workbook, that is subordinate to something else, such as a textbook.
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  • All content on the DVD—ancillary or supplemental along with primary—should be available for purposes of the exemption.
  • Given the epic downturn in the financial markets and ancillary, allied fields, downstate is probably indeed getting a taste of how badly it sucks economically along the I-90 corridor. —  WNYMedia
  • All the while, of course, "we" PRETEND to each other and "our" selves BY ARTIFICIALLY EXCLUDING FROM EXPLICIT CONSIDERATION all the "ancillary" --- for example all those "military" --- costs, that ACTUALLY DO ADD IN to its OVERALL TRUE cost, that the end result is somehow "cheaper" than the alternatives would be! —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • Retail space was to be "ancillary" - no more than 650,000 square feet in a 4.8 million square-foot project, including a second phase comprising a 500-room hotel and 1.8 million square feet of office space. —  Latest News
  • I see another ancillary issue -- not necessarily directly related to the MacBook Pro issue discussed above -- that needs to be addressed. —  CNET News.com
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  1. From Latin ancilla, maidservant, feminine diminutive of anculus, servant; see kwel-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin ancillaris, from ancilla, a maid-servant: see ancille.
 

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