The judge was a supernumerary, helping the regular judges whenever there was a surplus amount of work.
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Supernumerary
/ˌsuːpəˈnjuːm(ə)ɹ(ə)ɹi/
Synonyms for "supernumerary" (50 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Noun(7 words)
Strong matches (15)
Adjective(3 words)
Noun(3 words)
Related words (25)
Noun(4 words)
Adjective(5 words)
Related word relations
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More general
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14 entriesauxiliary staffbackground actorchorus membercontingent staffextra digitextra toothfilm extrastage extrasupernumerary digitsupernumerary ribsupernumerary toothsurplus itemtemporary stafftheatre extra
Collocations
9 entriessupernumerary actorsupernumerary chromosomesupernumerary digitsupernumerary officersupernumerary personnelsupernumerary seatsupernumerary staffsupernumerary teethsupernumerary tooth
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
2 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
19 translations across 10 languages.
Finnish
1 entries- ylimääräinen adj (beyond the prescribed or standard amount)
French
2 entries- en surnombre adj (beyond the prescribed or standard amount)
- surnuméraire adj (beyond the prescribed or standard amount)
Galician
2 entries- supernumeraria adj (beyond the prescribed or standard amount)
- supernumerario adj (beyond the prescribed or standard amount)
Hungarian
4 entries- létszám feletti adj (beyond the prescribed or standard amount)
- létszámon felüli adj (beyond the prescribed or standard amount)
- plusz adj (beyond the prescribed or standard amount)
- számfeletti adj (beyond the prescribed or standard amount)
Italian
3 entries- soprannumeraria adj (beyond the prescribed or standard amount)
- soprannumerario adj (beyond the prescribed or standard amount)
- soprannumero adj (beyond the prescribed or standard amount)
Polish
2 entries- nadliczbowy adj (beyond the prescribed or standard amount)
- nadmiarowy adj (beyond the prescribed or standard amount)
Romanian
1 entries- supranumerar adj (beyond the prescribed or standard amount)
Sanskrit
2 entries- अग्र adj (beyond the prescribed or standard amount)
- अधिक adj (beyond the prescribed or standard amount)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- prekobrojan adj (beyond the prescribed or standard amount)
Spanish
1 entries- supernumerario adj (beyond the prescribed or standard amount)
Sample sentences
22 total sentences available.
The Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, Bombardiers, Fifers, Gunners, Private Men, and Boys of the Royal Marines belonging to Her Majesty's Ships or Vessels, whether entered on the Ship's Books as part of the complement, or borne as supernumeraries, except when borne for a passage for service on shore, shall be considered entitled to the same advantages as the rest of the Ship's Company.
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What are the supernumeraries? upon whose report are they employed?— […] [I]f it is temporary employment, or for a temporary situation only, as occasion may require, such as the supernumeraries’ situations, for instance, these are looked upon as temporary appointments, although, from the great increase in our business, they have been in some respects permanent.
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Hospital Staff.—To be Assistant Surgeons to the Forces. – Assistant Surgeons Angus John Mackay, Supernumerary in the 1st Foot; Albert Hawkins, Supernumerary in the 4th Foot; […]
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