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supplementary

Word definitions for supplementary in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The term supplementary can refer to: Supplementary angles Supplementary Benefit , a former benefit payable in the United Kingdom Supplementary questions, asked during prime minister's questions

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, "added as something extra," from supplement (n.) + -ary . Suppletory in the same sense is from 1620s.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. added to complete or make up a deficiency; "produced supplementary volumes"; "additional reading" [syn: supplemental , additional ] functioning in a subsidiary or supporting capacity; "the main library and its auxiliary branches" [syn: auxiliary , ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Supplemental \Sup`ple*men"tal\, Supplementary \Sup`ple*men"ta*ry\, a. [Cf. F. suppl['e]mentaire.] Added to supply what is wanted; additional; being, or serving as, a supplement; as, a supplemental law; a supplementary sheet or volume. Supplemental ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN benefit ▪ Only 18 to 25 percent of the survey sample relied on or had their income topped up by the then supplementary benefit . ▪ One of the Government's aims in moving from supplementary benefit to income support ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. additional; added to supply what is wanted.

Usage examples of supplementary.

At the cessation of the menstrual flow, she generally had a supplementary epistaxis, and on one occasion, when this was omitted, she suffered a sudden effusion into the anterior chamber of the eye.

Major counseling contact with the child can be made by paraprofessionals or supplementary teachers who will be trained as therapeutic tutors and supervised by the school mental health specialist.

We had all been given supplementary rations of vodka, a liter each, before we left, but Porta, in his usual manner, had ended up with three times more than anyone else.

The fall of silk prices was particularly distressing to farming families, many of which were greatly dependent on supplementary income from sericulture to make ends meet.

In his supplementary picture of Standfast John Bunyan is seen at his very best, both as a religious teacher and as an English author.

On the ground of supplementary attention, partly desirable, partly a pretext, but unassociated with any evil intent, he visited her after in her lodging.

The Doos are fitted with supplementary petrol tanks to give each machine fuel for roughly thirty hours.

From the Mars command base, General Lanyan dispatched supplementary patrols throughout all ten grids, though no one believed that even well-armed scout fleets could defend themselves against an outright warglobe attack.

Under the conditions mentioned as peculiarly favorable for spruce, gradual natural restocking may be expected if some seed supply is preserved, but since the growth is rather slow and a thin stand will remain limby, it may pay to hasten returns by supplementary artificial planting.

If all the names of the people at Arlington and on the Pamunkey are not embraced in this deed I have executed, I should like a supplementary deed to be drawn up, containing all those omitted.

A farm wagon drove up loaded to overflowing with evergreens and with great bundles of palm leaves, and these were immediately seized upon and affixed as supplementary decorations to the tri-coloured cambric upon the inside walls of the barn.

Also that his Memoirs would be composed of six volumes in octavo with a seventh supplementary volume containing codicils.

The supplementary tanks carried more than two million pounds of liquid oxygen and hydrogen, propellant Ares would need to break clear of Earth orbit.

But supplementary to this, it has hypothetically occurred to me, that as ordinary fish possess what is called a swimming bladder in them, capable, at will, of distension or contraction.

Hoke's messy desk was littered with a half dozen sheets of bond typewriter paper, supplementary reports, and a red accordion file.