Definizione monolingua

supernumerary

supernumerary (plural supernumeraries)

1. A civil designation for somebody who works in a group, association or public office, without forming part of the regular staff; those distinguished from numerary. (For example, supernumerary judges are those who help the regular judges when there is a surplus amount of work.)
2. An extra or walk-on in a film or play; spear-carrier.

supernumerary (not comparable)

1. Extra; beyond the standard or prescribed amount.
   • 1948: Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence, page 74: 1949 “Chatto & Windus” edition; 1972 “Harper & Row” edition

     Over close-ups of little faces with hare lips, little trunks with stumps instead of legs and arms, little hands with clusters of supernumerary ?ngers, little bodies adorned with a double row of nipples, we hear the voice of the Narrator.

2. Greater in number than.
3. Beyond what is necessary.

Definizione dizionario supernumerary

sovrannumerario

Altri significati:

More than the expected or required number.

Beyond what is necessary.

Greater in number than.

Extra; beyond the standard or prescribed amount.

An extra or walk-on in a film or play; spear-carrier.

A civil designation for somebody who works in a group, association or public office, without forming part of the regular staff; those distinguished from numerary. (For example, supernumerary judges are those who help the regular judges when there is a surplus amount of work.)