Supernumerary

Definition

supernumerary /su:pǝ'nju:mǝrǝri; US /su:-pǝ'nu:mǝreri; Brit also sju:-/ adj ( fml ) အပိုအလွ်ံ။ supernumerary nursing staff.

Examples

1. ‘Returning to Cardiff
2. he became a supernumerary registrar to the medical school before leaving to become a general practitioner in the Swansea Valley.’
3. ‘Consider
4. for example
5. the mid-fifteenth century case of Duan Gang
6. a supernumerary soldier from a guard unit attached to an imperial prince who resided in Luzhou
7. Shanxi Province.’
8. ‘Many of these men were drawn from among the ranks of principal and supernumerary soldiers serving in guard units of the Northern Metropolitan Area
9. a pool of men with a modicum of military training and ready access to the weapons of the day.’
10. ‘But the film also shows that society does not see him as such: it sees only an FOB
11. a supernumerary worker in a cheap laundromat
12. a potential Communist agitator.’
13. ‘At seventeen he set out
14. working his way on a cargo ship as a supernumerary - doing the odd jobs.’
15. ‘As the number of supernumerary troops in the garrisons grew
16. many were put to work on the agricultural colonies
17. becoming servants and construction laborers
18. or pressed into active military service.’
19. ‘It's a disorder in which supernumerary bones form.’
20. ‘Complete doubling of the uterine tubes may occur in association with supernumerary ovaries.’
21. ‘Most frequently seen are supernumerary nipples anywhere along the primitive milk line
22. though true accessory mammary glands are most frequently located in the axilla (polymastia).’
23. ‘Various cases of supernumerary testicles have been reported during operations or in physical examination (without histological proof
24. however).’
25. ‘The most common variation of the lungs is the presence of supernumerary fissures.’
26. ‘They were there merely as props
27. as so many supernumeraries in his private psychodrama.’
28. ‘Seven years ago central government promised a solution
29. but the supernumeraries still use chairs
30. desks and telephones and they are costing close to a billion rands a year.’
31. ‘The rest of the cast are really supernumeraries; other ranks
32. captured German soldiers
33. etc although
34. again
35. they are well played and convincing in what they are called upon to do.’
36. ‘‘The supernumeraries are a problem mainly at provincial level
37. but the ghost workers are all over
38. ’ he said.’
39. ‘Her mainmast is 29 metres high
40. and she has a permanent crew of 16
41. assisted by 36 voyage crew and various supernumeraries.’
42. ‘The thousands of supernumeraries in the Eastern Cape who cost the province R1 billion a year are not facing retrenchment in the immediate future.’
43. ‘Others
44. called supernumeraries
45. would live in the community within their families.’
46. ‘I was pleased to hear that staff expenditure had been cut but was not happy to hear that the issue of supernumeraries was not mentioned.’
47. ‘A few words with my boss resulted in him being drafted as a supernumerary which became permanent eventually.’