English Dictionary

supernumerary

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌsuːpəˈnjuːm(ə)ɹ(ə)ɹi/

名詞

A person who works in a group, association, or public office without forming part of the regular staff (the numerary).

日本語の意味

定員に含まれない、追加の職員 / 正規スタッフとは別に配置される、臨時または補助的な役割を持つ人 / 正規採用の枠外で組織や団体に所属し、働く者

At the theater, a supernumerary stepped in to help with crowd control during the premiere.

劇場では、正規のスタッフに属さない臨時スタッフが初演の間に観客整理を手伝った。

意味（1）

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.

意味（2）

(film, theater) 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.

意味（3）

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

On each side the glass hung one of the large engravings; another over the secretary, facing the window, and the fourth, which for some time seemed a supernumerary, over the door.

意味（4）

(zoology) 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.

意味（5）

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

supernumeraries （ plural ）