English Dictionary

supernumerary

/ˌsuːpəˈnjuːm(ə)ɹ(ə)ɹi/

noun

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

The team had a supernumerary who helped with the project.

意味（1）

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

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

意味（2）

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

[A] minor actor or supernumerary often has a better opportunity to watch great actors than the great actors themselves.

意味（3）

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

On each side the glass hung one of the large engravings; another over the secretary, facing the window, and the fourth, which for some time seemed a supernumerary, over the door.

意味（4）

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

The best evidence so far that social supernumeraries are physically capable of bettering their lot concerns not rodents but birds.

意味（5）

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