4.envoy/ambassador/minister extraordinaryPGOan official employed for a special purpose, in addition to the usual officials 特使/特命大使/特命公使
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envoy/ambassador/minister extraordinary• He was an Ambassador Extraordinary Plenipotentiaryfor all mankind.
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extraordinary• The wholeincident had been quite extraordinary.• The view from up here is extraordinary.• According to Shafer, many people in high positions hold some extraordinarybeliefs.• Everything about the woman -- her hair, eyes, and jewellery -- gleamed with extraordinarybrilliance.• He said it was an extraordinarydecision and would send many industriesspinning into recession.• It is not the story of extraordinary families.• A madness, an extraordinaryfanaticism, took possession of all these new worshippers of the sun.• The show's ratings were extraordinary - it was a hugesuccess.• Sometimes this sympathy could involve quite extraordinary leniency.• He's the most extraordinary man I've ever met.• He really was a most extraordinary man.• At this point I was witness to an extraordinary, moving and almost frighteningscene.• As the story unfolds, first Axel and then Alec come to wieldextraordinary power in Washington without running for electiveoffice.• That would give them extraordinary power over the lives of other people on a level simply not acceptable in a democracy.• Their system of working can lead to extraordinary scenes.• The man's story was so extraordinary that I didn't know whether to believe him or not.• She left her husband, and in 1912 that was an extraordinary thing to do.• Bley plays acousticpiano in duo with Steve Swallow, and their rapportprojectsextraordinarywarmth on this delightfulalbum.
quite/most extraordinary• As normal as Nechita seems, she is clearly quite extraordinary.• Edith Taylor's story is one of the most extraordinary.• Instead he found something quite extraordinary.• The contrast between the images is quite extraordinary.• And now, quite slowly, there began to creep over Matilda a most extraordinary and peculiar feeling.• The flounder has become adapted to bottom-living to a quite extraordinarydegree.• This is a quite extraordinary extrapolation from experience.• They were the most extraordinary eyes he had ever seen.
From Longman Business Dictionary
extraordinaryex·tra·or·di·na·ry /ɪkˈstrɔːdənəriɪkˈstrɔːrdn-eri, ˌekstrəˈɔːr-/adjectiveadj [only before a noun]
ACCOUNTING an extraordinary cost etc is one that does not happen regularly and is not related to a company’s usual business activitiesSYN EXCEPTIONAL
The results represent an operating loss of DM170 million, combined with extraordinary write-offs and costs connected with the layoff of 840 workers at three of its plants.
Originextraordinary
(1400-1500)Latinextraordinarius, from extra ordinem“out of the usual course”, from ordo“order”