surplus
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French sorplus. Compare French surplus.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: sur‧plus
Noun
surplus (countable and uncountable, plural surpluses or surplusses)
- That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus.
- Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.
- (law) The remainder of a fund appropriated for a particular purpose.
- (law) assets left after liabilities and debts, including capital stock have been deducted.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Translations
excess, overplus
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funds in public treasury greater than ordinary needs
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Adjective
surplus (not comparable)
- Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient
- surplus revenues
- surplus population
- surplus words
- It is surplus to our needs
- 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist[1], volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
- An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
Translations
being a surplus
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Verb
surplus (third-person singular simple present surpluses or surplusses, present participle surplussing or surplusing, simple past and past participle surplussed or surplused)
- To treat as surplus to requirements, to sell off.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
surplus m (plural surplus)
Descendants
- → Italian: surplus
Further reading
- “surplus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Noun
surplus m (uncountable)
- surplus (all senses)
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