additional
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of additional
Explanation
If your parents get you a cell phone and add it to their plan as an additional line, they are adding one more line to their bill, so additional means another or one more. Even though they added an additional line to their plan, your parents might ask you to pay for the additional charges. That means they will see how much more your phone usage adds to their plan, and will charge it back to you. If you complain, they might say to avoid additional conflict, you can just get your own plan and pay all of the bills!
Vocabulary lists containing additional
Academic Vocabulary: Core Tier 2 Words, List 1
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Example Sentences
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The Incline Village General Improvement District, which owns and manages the residents-only beach where the poisonings took place, has put up another $25,000 and installed additional cameras around the trees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Germany was engaged in a necessary catch-up, he said, noting that it would have spent an additional $400 billion on defense since 1990 if it had met NATO’s spending target of 2% of economic output.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
The experience has left her frustrated with what she sees as hesitation by some of Ukraine's foreign partners to provide additional air-defence missiles.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Together, those savings could provide approximately four additional years of potential mission life and leave even more propellant available for future scientific work.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
The light changes, and the guy on the bike takes an additional beat to stare us down yet again.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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