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# (''legal'') [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Assisting Assisting] a crime without actually participating in committing the crime itself; being connected as an [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/incident incident] or subordinate to a [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/principal principal].
# (''legal'') [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Assisting Assisting] a crime without actually participating in committing the crime itself; being connected as an [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/incident incident] or subordinate to a [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/principal principal].
# (''medicine, biology'') [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Supernumerary Supernumerary] and generally [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonfunctional nonfunctional].
# (''medicine, biology'') [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Supernumerary Supernumerary] and generally [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonfunctional nonfunctional].
=====Usage notes=====
* (sense: secondary, supplementary) Said of things and actions, very rarely of people (and then usually in a humorous version of the legal sense, or due to confusion between the noun and the adjective).


===Etymology 2===
===Etymology 2===