Supernumerary

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Exceeding a fixed, prescribed, or standard number; extra.
  • adj. Exceeding the required or desired number or amount; superfluous. See Synonyms at superfluous.
  • n. One that is in excess of the regular, necessary, or usual number.
  • n. An actor without a speaking part, as one who appears in a crowd scene.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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.)
  • n. An extra or walk-on in a film or play; spear-carrier.
  • adj. Extra; beyond the standard or prescribed amount.
  • adj. Greater in number than.
  • adj. Beyond what is necessary.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Exceeding the number stated or prescribed.
  • adj. Exceeding a necessary, usual, or required number or quality; superfluous.
  • n. A person or thing beyond the number stated.
  • n. A person or thing beyond what is necessary or usual; especially, a person employed not for regular service, but only to fill the place of another in case of need; specifically, in theaters, a person who is not a regular actor, but is employed to appear in a stage spectacle.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Exceeding a number stated or prescribed: as, a supernumerary officer in a regiment.
  • Exceeding a necessary or usual number.
  • n. A person or thing beyond the number stated, or beyond what is necessary or usual; especially, a person not formally a member of a regular body or staff of officials or employees, but retained or employed to act as an assistant or substitute in case of necessity.
  • n. Specifically— A military officer attached to a corps or arm of the service where no vacancy exists. Such an officer receives, in the United States army, the rank of brevet second lieutenant, or additional second lieutenant.
  • n. Theat., one not belonging to the regular company, who appears on the stage, but has no lines to speak. Often colloquially abbreviated super and supe.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a minor actor in crowd scenes
  • adj. more than is needed, desired, or required
  • n. a person serving no apparent function
    • Equivalent
    unnecessary    unneeded   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    player    histrion    role player    actor    thespian   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    superfluous    supe    super    figurant    figurante   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    prosthetic    active-transitive    funnel-like    cone-shaped    office-boy   
     
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