Word Finder - supernumerary

definition

A person who works in a group, association, or public office without forming part of the regular staff (the numerary).

example

The judge was a supernumerary, helping the regular judges whenever there was a surplus amount of work.

definition

An extra or walk-on, often non-speaking, in a film or play; a spear carrier.

synonyms

• supe
• super

definition

Something which is beyond the prescribed or standard amount or number.

definition

An animal which has not formed a pair bond and is therefore single.

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A married man or woman who is a secular member of Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic religious institution.

definition

Greater in number than.

definition

Beyond the prescribed or standard amount or number; excess, extra.

synonyms

• epactal

definition

Beyond what is necessary; redundant.

synonyms

• superfluous
• unnecessary
• unneeded
• unwanted

We know this from the three widely spaced colored supernumerary bows.

The support you receive through your mentor is part of your supernumerary status in the clinical setting.

Trainees in job shares were as satisfied with their training as those in supernumerary posts or in full-time training.

We then joined the supernumerary members of the expedition on an adjacent slag heap, over which the UFO was said to have hovered.

In practice, these candidates are likely to be closer to achieving the QTS Standards than supernumerary trainees.

He is also a supernumerary fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford.

Within a week Ranke received the promise of a post at Berlin, and in less than three months was appointed supernumerary professor in the university of that city, a striking instance of the promptitude with which the Prussian government recognized scientific merit when, as in Ranke's case, it was free from dangerous political opinions.

The geometrical theory, which formed the basis of the investigations of Descartes and Newton, afforded no explanation of the supernumerary bows, and about a century elapsed before an explanation was forthcoming.

Thus an abortive supernumerary finger may not cause much, if any, inconvenience to the possessor, but nevertheless it must be regarded as a type of disease, which, trivial as it may appear, has a profound meaning in phylogeny and ontogeny.

At this date he was ambitious of a political career, but his father had sustained severe losses in business, and in these circumstances Manning, having graduated with first-class honours in 1830, obtained the year following, through Viscount Goderich, a post as supernumerary clerk in the colonial office.

A small supernumerary weight F is added, which can be placed upon the top of the stem.

But Mr Lang's answer on that point is that this humble supernumerary in Roux de Marsilly's conspiracy simply became one more wretched victim of the "red tape" of the old French absolute monarchy.

In the next stage of complication, seen in the supernumerary (seventh) ocellus of Charybdaea, the patch of pigmented and sensory epithelium is pushed in to form a little pit, in the T Aurelia aurita.

The administration of the districts is carried on by collectors, assistant collectors, and a varying number of supernumerary assistants.

And when they run over a man that is walking in his sleep, a supernumerary sleeper in the wrong position, and wake him up, they suddenly stop the cars, and make a hue and cry about it, as if this were an exception.

In addition to these prominent features, there are sometimes to be seen a number of coloured bands, situated at or near the summits of the bows, close to the inner edge of the primary and the outer edge of the secondary bow; these are known as the spurious, supernumerary or complementary rainbows.

Within the precincts of the city the axe was removed, in recognition of the right of appeal (provocatio) to the people in a matter of life and death; outside Rome, however, each consul retained the axe, and was preceded by his own lictors, not merely by a single accensus (supernumerary), as was originally the case within the city when he was not officiating.