auxiliary

Roget category 711

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.4. Antagonism
›› 5.4.2. Active antagonism

#711. Auxiliary

noun

auxiliary — recruit — assistant — adjuvant, adjutant — ayudante^†, coaid^† — adjunct — help, helper, help mate, helping hand — midwife — colleague, partner, mate, confrere, cooperator — coadjutor, coadjutrix^† — collaborator.
ally — friend etc. 890, confidant, fidus Achates [Lat.], pal, buddy, alter ego.
[criminal law] confederate — accomplice — complice — accessory, accessory after the fact — particeps criminis [Lat.] — socius criminis [Lat.].
aide-de-camp, secretary, clerk, associate, marshal — right-hand, right-hand man, Friday, girl Friday, man Friday, gopher, gofer — candle-holder, bottle-holder — handmaid — servant etc. 746 — puppet, cat's-paw, jackal^†.
tool, dupe, stooge, ame damnee [Fr.] — satellite, adherent.
votary — sectarian, secretary — seconder, backer, upholder, abettor, advocate, partisan, champion, patron, friend at court, mediator — angel (theater, entertainment). friend in need, Jack at a pinch, deus ex machina [Lat.], guardian angel, tutelary genius.

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