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handmaiden

 noun
     
Related topics: Occupations
hand‧maid‧en also hand‧maid [countable]
1 old-fashionedBO a female servant
2 formal something that supports an idea, system, or way of life
handmaiden of
Science must not become the handmaiden of the state.
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