supplemental
[suhp-luh-men-tl]
- supplementary.
- nonscheduled(def 2).
- (of a pleading, an affidavit, etc.) added to furnish what is lacking or missing.
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- anything that is supplemental: supplementals attached to the bill in committee.
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Origin of supplemental
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Contemporary Examples
And keeping the wait times down may have been a lucrative source of supplemental income for VA employees involved.
Half of the 47 million on SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) are children.
McCauley revealed that episode in a “supplemental” report, dated nearly a month after the grand-jury verdict.
The old unreformed Congress had enacted the Supplemental Security Income program in 1971.
Memo: The Aaron Sorkin Model of Political Discourse Doesn't Actually WorkMegan McArdle
April 23, 2013
A Republican leadership aide, asked if there was any discussion of a supplemental funding bill, said simply: “Not yet.”
Historical Examples
Then there came a supplemental clause as to the peculiar care of the animal.
Confessions Of Con CreganCharles James Lever
Six volumes of Supplemental Nights were issued by Burton between 1886 and 1888.
The Book-Hunter at HomeP. B. M. Allan
It was I who had overlooked Mr. Collier's supplemental note.
The practice of keeping a supplemental or inactive roll is not approved.
Gospel DoctrineJoseph F. Smith
It ought, by supplemental legislation, to be extended to all cases.
Letters and Literary Memorials of Samuel J. Tilden, v. 2Samuel J. Tilden
Word Origin and History for supplemental
adj.
c.1600, from supplement + -al (1). Related: Supplementally.
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