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supernumeraries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Supernumerary \Su`per*nu"mer*a*ry\, n.; pl. Supernumeraries.
A person or thing beyond the number stated.
A person or thing beyond what is necessary or usual; especially, a person employed not for regular service, but only to fill the place of another in case of need; specifically, in theaters, a person who is not a regular actor, but is employed to appear in a stage spectacle.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of supernumerary English)
Usage examples of "supernumeraries".
There are a good many supernumeraries who are underemployed, if they are employed at all.
There were no supernumeraries to be found anywhere on the streets, and it had even begun to dawn on a good many people that had the Timmys not been so ubiquitous all those generations, likely there would have been no such things as supernumes.
You gentlemen, being supernumeraries, may not know the mechanical set-up we have.
With a crew of sixteen not counting supernumeraries, and with nothing larger than a six-pounder?