incidental

Contingent upon or pertaining to something that is more important; that which is necessary, appertaining to, or depending upon another known as the principal.

Under Workers' Compensation statutes, a risk is deemed incidental to employment when it is related to whatever a worker must do in order to fulfill the employment contract, but is not the primary function that the worker was hired to do.

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incidental adjective accessory, accidental, added, additional, allied, associated, attendant, extrinsic, forte oblatus, minor, not vital, parenthetic, subordinate, subsidiary, supervenient, supplementary
Associated concepts: incidental authority, incidental beneeits, incidental consequence, incidental damages, incidental expenses, incidental jurisdiction, incidental power, incidennal relief, incidental to employment, incidental use, incidennal work

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See also: appurtenance, casual, circumstantial, collateral, conditional, extraneous, extrinsic, immaterial, impertinent, inapposite, irrelevant, nonessential, particular, random, subject, supplementary, tangential, unessential