Definition of supplemental
1 : serving to supplement
2 : nonscheduled a supplemental airline
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Examples of supplemental in a Sentence
She receives a supplemental income every month from the government.
the new program will provide supplemental health insurance to thousands of workers
Recent Examples of supplemental from the Web
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With a supplemental first-round pick in 2012, the Astros took high school pitcher Lance McCullers, who at 23 has developed into a top-of-the-rotation stud.
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And even after that, William needed a feeding tube, heart and breathing monitors and supplemental oxygen.
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WIC provides benefits for milk, cheese, eggs, cereals, fruits, vegetables, peanut butter and other supplemental foods at authorized stores throughout the state.
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Last year, Arlington Charities provided more than $2 million in food assistance and distributed 2,400 bags of groceries to elderly and disabled people through its supplemental food program.
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The St. Tammany Library Foundation is a friend organization which raises supplemental funding for the parish library system.
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A group of civil-rights organizations, including the A. Philip Randolph Institute, the think tank Demos, and the ACLU of Ohio, filed a lawsuit against Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted challenging the supplemental process’s legality in early 2016.
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Char Shyrock, director of curriculum, said that teachers are finding supplemental learning materials online, or even creating their own in digital formats.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, many Quixtar IBOs describe the company as something more closely akin to a personal savior than a potential source of supplemental income.
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First Known Use of supplemental
1605
SUPPLEMENTAL Defined for English Language Learners
supplemental
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: added to something else to make it complete
Medical Dictionary
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: serving to supplement : supplementary
Law Dictionary
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: serving to complete or make an addition supplemental appropriations; specifically : of, relating to, or being a supplemental pleading
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