supernumerary

Các nghĩa

1. người làm việc ngoài biên chế

   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.

2. diễn viên quần chúng

   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.

3. vật vượt quá số lượng quy định

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

4. động vật chưa ghép đôi

   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.

5. thành viên giáo dân của Opus Dei

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

   “Supernumeraries”, the bulk of Opus Dei members, can marry and live in their own homes, with slightly fewer spiritual obligations.

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