supplementary
pronunciation
How to pronounce supplementary in British English:
UK [ˌsʌplɪˈmentri]
How to pronounce supplementary in American English:
US [ˌsʌplɪˈmentri]
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- Adjective:
- added to complete or make up a deficiency
- functioning in a subsidiary or supporting capacity
Word Origin
- supplementary (adj.)
- 1660s, "added as something extra," from supplement (n.) + -ary. Suppletory in the same sense is from 1620s.
Example
- 1. The relationship between erp and the enterprise is supplementary to each other .
- 2. Supplementary hardware support can be added too .
- 3. Meanwhile , activity in the same movement-related brain area reported by libet - the supplementary motor area - predicted when the participants would move , up to five seconds before they consciously decided to .
- 4. We also created a " supplementary facility " in 1977 that proved crucial to our response to the latin american debt crisis .
- 5. The government has passed a 4 trillion ( $ 50 billion ) supplementary budget for cleaning up the debris and other urgent tasks .