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Another word for supplemental

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Adjective

  1. Forming or serving as a complement

    See also:

    part

    agree

  2. Used or held in reserve

      1. supplying what is lacking; additional
      2. a supplementary person or thing
      1. One that can always be relied on, as in an emergency.
      2. One kept in readiness to serve as a substitute.
      3. A mode of operation for a computer, television, or other electronic device in which the power is on and the device is ready for immediate use.
      1. Second or lower in rank or importance; not primary:
      2. Following what is first in time or sequence:
      3. Of or relating to secondary schools.
      1. To keep back, as for future use or for a special purpose:
      2. To set or cause to be set apart for a particular person or use:
      3. To keep or secure for oneself; retain:
      1. A serious situation or occurrence that happens unexpectedly and demands immediate action.
      2. A condition of urgent need for action or assistance:
      3. For use during emergencies:
      1. A reserve or substitute.
      2. A copy of a program or file that is stored separately from the original.
      3. Support or backing.
      1. Giving assistance or support; helping.
      2. Acting as a subsidiary; supplementary:
      3. Held in or used as a reserve:
    See also:

    increase

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Sentence Examples

  • In 1865 a new and more satisfactory law was passed, which with supplemental legislation is still in force.

  • A volume of supplemental notes to his Middle Ages was published in 1848.

  • - As supplemental to the account of poetry may be mentioned here some of the chief collections of ancient verse, sometimes made for the sake of the poems themselves, sometimes to give a locus classicus for usages of grammar or lexicography, sometimes to illustrate ancient manners and customs. The earliest of these is the Mo'allakat.

  • The census and statistics office, reorganized as a branch of the department of agriculture in 1905, undertakes a complete census of population, of agriculture, of manufactures and of all the natural products of the Dominion every ten years, a census of the population and agriculture of the three North-West Provinces every five years, and various supplemental statistical inquiries at shorter intervals.

  • 92); similarly in building a brick pyramid the axis was marked, and there were supplemental marks two cubits to one side (P.K.

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