ancillary
adjective
- providing necessary support to the primary activities or operation of an organization, system, or enterprise.
- The hospital's ancillary services include radiology and laboratory testing.
- Legal fees are often considered an ancillary cost of the merger.
- Ancillary staff play a vital role in the smooth running of the school.
- She took on an ancillary role in the marketing department.
- The company invested in ancillary equipment to boost production efficiency.
noun
- a person whose work provides necessary support to the primary activities of an organization.
- Training programs for ancillaries improve overall service quality.
- The hospital hired more ancillaries to assist the nursing staff.
- He started as an ancillary and later became a senior technician.
- Ancillaries in the lab handle sample processing and data entry.
- The conference recognized the contributions of all ancillaries.