Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Being more than or in excess of what is needed or required: surplus grain. See Synonyms at superfluous.
- n. An amount or a quantity in excess of what is needed.
- n. Accounting Total assets minus the sum of all liabilities.
- n. Accounting Excess of a corporation's net assets over the face value of its capital stock.
- n. Accounting Excess of receipts over expenditures.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. That which remains above what is used or needed; excess beyond what is prescribed or wanted; more than enough; overplus.
- n. In law, the residuum of an estate after the debts and legacies are paid.
- Being above what is required; in excess: as, surplus labor; surplus population.
Wiktionary
- n. That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus.
- n. Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.
- n. law The remainder of a fund appropriated for a particular purpose.
- n. law assets left after liabilities and debts, including capital stock have been deducted.
- adj. Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient; as, surplus revenues; surplus population; surplus words.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus.
- n. Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.
- adj. Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient
WordNet 3.0
- adj. more than is needed, desired, or required
- n. a quantity much larger than is needed
Etymologies
- French surplus (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, an excess, surplus, from Old French, an excess, from Medieval Latin superplūs : Latin super-, super- + Latin plūs, more; see pelə-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Marx used the term surplus value to refer to the commodities produced above and beyond subsistence.”
“Bush said the surplus is the people's money not the government but he turned over a deficit to Obama and a complete mess for him to clean up.”
“There is one other general concept used throughout the work which should be defined here – the concept of what I call surplus energy (often shortened to surplus).”
“In the case of labor, price supports are known as a minimum wage, import restrictions are handled by the Immigration Department and the surplus is additional unemployment.”
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“Now, this difference between what you get and what he gets is what we call surplus-value.”
“Having studied the documents and the past recent history of the Games bidding process, we have decided that the word 'surplus' clearly represents the financial results from the staging of the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games combined.”
“Having studied the documents and the past recent history of the Games bidding process we have decided that the word 'surplus' clearly represents the financial results from the staging of the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games combined.”
“Having studied the documents and the past recent history of the games bidding process, we have decided that the word 'surplus' clearly represents the financial results from the staging of the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games combined," the IOC said.”
“But that has we see drops in assets across the entire industry taking, what I call the surplus outs.”
“The years when the budget was in "surplus" were hardly a time of low interest rates, or declining trade deficits for that matter.”
Economic Attribution Error, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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BUDG - general terms
Budgetese - not a sexy topic but a very comprehensive list of words and collocations used in EU circles. Budgeting experts please comment and expand.
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
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3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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ITRE - energy - general terms
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CONT - general terms
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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AGRI - sustainable agriculture
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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Economists do it with models
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
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Words I have to learn
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Misc. Words.
Words I like to use, words I like but may forget.
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my dictionary
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Filthy Stinking Rich
Monetary units and other words that mean money. Other financial words are allowed too, as long as they're principally about money. Get it, principally? I kill me.
money, cash, dough, loot, wad, stack, booty, capital, nest egg, treasure, banknote, net and 168 more...
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demimonde, grandiloquent, libertine, virtuous, vacuous, discord, mulatto, precocious, pregnable, languor, pickaninny, ineffable and 42 more...
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