ancillary vs top-up

ancillary

adj
  • Subordinate; secondary; auxiliary. 

noun
  • Something that serves an ancillary function, such as an easel for a painter. 

top-up

adj
  • That serves as an addition 

noun
  • The situation where a student who holds a qualification equivalent to part of a degree course is then accepted onto a degree course at an intermediate point, without having to start it from the beginning. 

  • Additional credit purchased for a mobile phone. 

  • An addition. 

  • An additional premium paid over the initial premium in order to increase benefit values. 

  • A serving of drink used to top up an existing glass. 

  • A dose of epidural anesthetic added to previously injected spinal anesthetic in combined spinal-epidural anesthesia 

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