"adjunct" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "adjunct",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "adjuncts",
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "ad‧junct",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "For her, beauty was an undoubted adjunct to her ability to move from one opportunity of employment up to another."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An adjunct is something less important that is joined with something else."
      ],
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    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Nationwide, salaries for full-time faculty held up well, but major shifts were underway replacing regular tenure-track faculty with adjuncts or other cost-saving devices (bigger classes, more teaching hours, using technology to reach more people)."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An adjunct is a professor who is not in a tenure-track position."
      ],
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      "raw_tags": [
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    },
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          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "In the sentence he arrived last week, last week functions as an adjunct."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An adjunct is a modifier or supplement."
      ],
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        "linguistics",
        "grammar"
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      "ipa": "/ˈæˌdʒəŋkt/",
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        "US"
      ]
    },
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  "word": "adjunct"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "adjunct",
      "tags": [
        "positive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "more adjunct",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most adjunct",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "hyphenation": "ad‧junct",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Though that my death were adjunct to my act, By heaven, I would do it. (Shakespeare: King John III, Act 3, Line 57)"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "archaic: attendant upon"
      ],
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  "word": "adjunct"
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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "adjunct",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "adjuncts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "ad‧junct",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "For her, beauty was an undoubted adjunct to her ability to move from one opportunity of employment up to another."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An adjunct is something less important that is joined with something else."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Countable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Nationwide, salaries for full-time faculty held up well, but major shifts were underway replacing regular tenure-track faculty with adjuncts or other cost-saving devices (bigger classes, more teaching hours, using technology to reach more people)."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An adjunct is a professor who is not in a tenure-track position."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Grammar",
        "Linguistics"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "In the sentence he arrived last week, last week functions as an adjunct."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An adjunct is a modifier or supplement."
      ],
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        "linguistics",
        "grammar"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "adjunct"
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    {
      "form": "adjunct",
      "tags": [
        "positive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "more adjunct",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most adjunct",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
  "hyphenation": "ad‧junct",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Though that my death were adjunct to my act, By heaven, I would do it. (Shakespeare: King John III, Act 3, Line 57)"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "archaic: attendant upon"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "word": "adjunct"
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