boventallige noun (person who works in a group without forming part of the regular staff)
surnumerair noun (person who works in a group without forming part of the regular staff)

Finnish

1 entries

ylimääräinen adj (beyond the prescribed or standard amount)

French

4 entries

en surnombre adj (beyond the prescribed or standard amount)
en surnombre adj (beyond what is necessary — see also redundant)
en trop adj (beyond what is necessary — see also redundant)
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

fölös adj (beyond what is necessary — see also redundant)
létszám feletti adj (beyond the prescribed or standard amount)
létszámon felüli adj (beyond the prescribed or standard amount)
nagyobb számú adj (greater in number than)

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)

Latin

1 entries

supernumerarius noun (person who works in a group without forming part of the regular staff)

Polish

4 entries

nadliczbowy adj (beyond the prescribed or standard amount)
nadliczbowy adj (beyond what is necessary — see also redundant)
nadmiarowy adj (beyond the prescribed or standard amount)
nadmiarowy adj (beyond what is necessary — see also redundant)

Romanian

1 entries

supranumerar adj (beyond the prescribed or standard amount)

Russian

1 entries

внешта́тный noun (person who works in a group without forming part of the regular staff)

Sanskrit

2 entries

अग्र adj (beyond the prescribed or standard amount)
अधिक adj (beyond the prescribed or standard amount)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

prekobrojan adj (beyond the prescribed or standard amount)
prekobrojno noun (something beyond the prescribed or standard amount or number)

Spanish

2 entries

supernumerario adj (beyond the prescribed or standard amount)
supernumerario noun (something beyond the prescribed or standard amount or number)

Ukrainian

1 entries

позашта́тний noun (person who works in a group without forming part of the regular staff)

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

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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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