Word Finder - surplus

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That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus.

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Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.

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The remainder of a fund appropriated for a particular purpose.

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Assets left after liabilities and debts, including capital stock have been deducted.

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To treat as surplus to requirements, to sell off.

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Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient

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It is surplus to our needs

The surplus for the year amounted to 65,000,000 lire.

In the lean years, harvests are small and farmers sometimes don't even produce enough to have surplus to sell.

Surplus plants and cuttings are generally distributed without charge to educational or charitable institutions, and to the poor.

These do not take a direct part in the formation of the new tissue, but it is believed merely yield their surplus acquisitions, becoming ordinary blood-cells or disappearing altogether.

Markets are established in the city where peasants can bring their surplus supplies and the products of the soil.

You might argue that since there is now a surplus of labor in Chad's neighborhood, the price of labor is lowered and Chad will only find work paying $9.75 an hour.

The Society was able to invest surplus cash in land.

At the same time improvements in agriculture and the opening up of new countries have enabled the modern community to gain its food and raw material with a less expenditure of labour force, and the surplus agricultural population has gone to the city.

Any surplus of revenue beyond that necessary to provide 4% interest and I% sinking fund was to be handed over to the government.

The bowl incorporates a drip and ash tray for all surplus waste.

Wind on the rib, secure and cut off the surplus gold tinsel or wire.

Save your money and get the real thing at your local army surplus supply store.

You may be able to find some discounted items at the local Army-Navy or other military surplus stores.

They can also be found online at sites such as eBay, Army Surplus World, Army Navy Deals and Amazon.com.

Store your surplus candles in a cool, dry place so that they'll be fresh and stable for use any time you want to light them.

You need a calorie surplus to grow muscles, and doing excess cardio merely depletes your resources that way.

The company was founded in 1919 by Jack Cohen, who sold surplus groceries in London.

The statistics of these show that there was during the thirty-two years, 1856-88, an excess of emigration over immigration of 1,146,052 in the case of Russians, and a surplus of immigration of 2,304,717 foreigners.

The ordinary revenue of the empire is in excess of the ordinary expenditure, but the extraordinary expenditure not only swallows up this surplus, but necessitates the raising of fresh F loans every year.

If such drafts upon the reserve fund become necessary, they are to be made good in the following years out of the surplus above mentioned.

The surplus in the treasury was $8,435,848, the total amount in trust and sinking funds was $31,301,501.

There is a small nominal indebtedness, less than the cash surplus in the treasury.

Athletic activities can be beneficial, since exercise makes use of surplus blood glucose.

The object of this measure is to replace the 1 In 1903 two of the principal sources of supply of mutton shipped in excess of their exportable surplus, for which they suffered severely in 1904 - hence the somewhat irregular movements after 1903.

Army and Navy stores will often sell surplus equipment and some apparel items to the public.

In 1887 there was a large and growing surplus in the treasury.

In the past this has lead to a surplus of green cullet.

The final figure will be the net surplus or deficit for the period.

Jeez - you can still buy the real thing down the army surplus store for fourteen quid.

The level crossings are now unmanned, operated by train crews, and all the surplus track removed.

The 2,400,000 surplus announced by Seismit Doda proved to be a myth.

Local garden centers and farm surplus supply stores are your best resources for the majority of the ingredients for organic fertilizer.

Since these stores deal in surplus merchandise rather than a particular brand or label, you could very well find the Lane Bryant label among their ponchos.

The winery functions more in the traditional sense of a nègociant; they source surplus grapes and wine from various growers and producers throughout the United States, bottle it, and market it.

Some products may be found by going to a RV salvage or surplus parts sale and by locating dealers online.

Baby's closet may harbor a surplus of stylish clothes you can't wait to slip on your sweetie, but before you head to the hospital, make certain you have all you need and want to make your stay as comfortable as possible.

The multivitamin will contain what you need of all the "energy vitamins", and taking in 100 times the RDI only means you'll flush out the expensive surplus next time you go to the bathroom.

Holiday seasons and times of uncertainty in our nation and world is when the church pews are packed - but this usually does not indicate a surplus of funds.

Many people who are avid cross stitchers have a surplus of charts that they've gathered through the years, and would be happy to swap them for ones they haven't tried.

This would be the opposite of a slice of cake containing about 300 calories, which might take the body only 50 calories to process, leaving a surplus of 250 calories to burn or store as fat.

The statement requires that the provision established should have regard to the manner in which the revaluation surplus will be realized.

At the same time the government is claiming to have amassed a current budget surplus of £ 23 billion last year.

There will be no shareholders, and any operating surplus will be used for the benefit of the railroad system.

Table 1 summarizes the results from a set of travel cost studies that have estimated visitor consumer surplus for various national parks.

Or your old drill, mobile phone or any other electrical product broken or deemed surplus to requirements in our increasingly throwaway society?

Lake Cayor on the right side of the lower Senegal and Lake Panieful (Guier) on the left constitute reserve basins, receiving the surplus waters of the river during flood and restoring them in the dry season.

The production of coal and lignite averaging 33,465,000 metric tons in the years 1901-1905 represents about 73% of the total consumption of the country; the surplus is supplied from Great Britain, Belgium and Germany.

Herodotus had no Athenian victories to record after the initial success, and the fact that Themistocles was able to carry his proposal to devote the surplus funds of the state to the building of so large a fleet seems to imply that the Athenians were themselves convinced that a supreme effort was necessary.

One explanation of this condition of things is that there is still a large surplus of cotton seed which cannot be manufactured by the mills.

The alluvial portion of the state, especially below the mouth of the Red river, is an intricate network of these bayous, which, before their closure by a levee system, served partially, in time of flood, to carry off the escaping surplus of river waters.