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adjustable life insurance

adjustable peg

adjustable-rate

adjustable-rate mortgage

adjustable-rate preferred stock

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adjunct

ad·junct [ á jùngkt ]

noun (plural ad·juncts)

Definition:

1. something added on as extra: something inessential added to something else

2. assistant: an assistant or subordinate

3. inessential part of sentence: a part of a sentence that is not the subject or predicate

adjective

Definition:

attached temporarily to staff: assigned temporarily or as an auxiliary member to the staff of an institution

an adjunct professor of art history

[Early 16th century. < Latin adjunctus, past participle of adjungere (see adjoin)]

ad·junc·tion [ ə júngksh'n ] noun

ad·junc·tive adjective

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