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Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary
supernumerary
1. a person serving no apparent function - reducing staff is difficult because our employees include no supernumeraries • Hypernyms: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul 2. a minor actor in crowd scenes • Syn: spear carrier, extra • Hypernyms: actor, histrion, player, thespian, role player
more than is needed, desired, or required - trying to lose excess weight - found some extra change lying on the dresser - yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant - skills made redundant by technological advance - sleeping in the spare room - supernumerary ornamentation - it was supererogatory of her to gloat - delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words - extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts - surplus cheese distributed to the needy • Syn: excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, surplus • Similar to: unnecessary, unneeded • Derivationally related forms: superfluity (for: superfluous), redundance (for: redundant), redundancy (for: redundant)
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