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complementary definition

com·ple·men·tary (käm′plə men′tə rē)

adjective

  1. acting as a complement; completing
  2. making up what is lacking in one another
Also complemental com′·ple·men′·tal (-men′təl)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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