Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An amount in excess of need; a surplus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Surplus; that which remains after a supply or beyond a quantity proposed; excess.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That which remains after a supply, or beyond a quantity proposed; surplus.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun That which remains beyond what is necessary or required; a
surplus .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun extreme excess
Etymologies
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Examples
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When the overplus is abused, it is just with God to diminish that which is for necessity.
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Another circumstance omitted to be noticed in the first edition relates to what is technically called the overplus, which may be now explained.
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They may profit by an "overplus," or be paid by the length of a "run" of their plays, or may sell them out-right at once for a stipulated sum.
A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character
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"overplus" lands, 101 acres in, called the 12th draught of, deeded to Gideon Searl by administrator of Josiah Searl, representatives, ..... shirts, etc., for army,
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I am careless, improvident, uncautious, happy out of sheer well - being and overplus of physical energy.
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I was never so nauseated in my life with overplus of fallacy.
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The populations of the Solar System had been carefully figured to the last decimal point and portioned out among the planets according to food - and employment-potential, so that nowhere was there a scarcity or an overplus, and nobody's individual whim was allowed to upset the balance.
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He was undeniably handsome, and his looks were enhanced by a warm overplus of blood in the cheeks and a certain mellow fire in the eyes.
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Nothing was left over — it was a discreditable thing to have any overplus at all.
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Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.
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