surplus

Plural: surpluses, surplusses

Noun

• An amount remaining after requirements have been met; an excess.
• a quantity much larger than is needed
• That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus; overage.
• Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.
• The remainder of a fund appropriated for a particular purpose.
• assets left after liabilities and debts, including capital stock have been deducted.

Adjective Satellite

• more than is needed, desired, or required
  • "surplus cheese distributed to the needy"

Adj

• Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient.

Verb

• To treat as surplus to requirements; to sell off or dismiss from employment, etc.

Examples

• Even after two bingos, he still had a surplus of high-value tiles on his rack.
• surplus population
• surplus words
• The latest shipment of goods is surplus to our needs.

Synonyms

excess, extra, nimiety, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplusage, abundance, acrasia, acrasy, copiousness, excessiveness, exuberance, fecundity, fertileness, fertility, fruitfulness, fulth, glut, immoderation, incontinence, intemperance, mountain, offcut, overabundance, overage, overflow, overplus, overquantity, oversum, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, plethora, productiveness, profusion, superabundance, superaddition, superfluity, superfluousness, superflux, superplus, surfeit, surplus, uberty, ug

Antonyms

deficit, lack, shortage

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