surplus

From Middle English surplus, from Middle French surplus. Compare French surplus.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɝˌplʌs/, /ˈsɝpləs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɜːpləs/

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• Hyphenation: sur‧plus
• Homophone: surplice (one pronunciation)

surplus (countable and uncountable, plural surpluses or surplusses)

1. That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus; overage.
2. Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.
3. (law) The remainder of a fund appropriated for a particular purpose.
4. (law) assets left after liabilities and debts, including capital stock have been deducted.

• overquantity
• oversum

• lack
• deficit
• shortage

surplus (not comparable)

1. Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient.

   surplus population

   surplus words

   The latest shipment of goods is surplus to our needs.

   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:

     But to return to where we left her, I see her still, propped up in a kind of stupor against one of the walls in which this wretched edifice abounds, her long grey greasy hair framing in its cowl of scrofulous mats a face where pallor, languor, hunger, acne, recent dirt, immemorial chagrin and surplus hair seemed to dispute the mastery.

   • 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.

surplus (third-person singular simple present surpluses or surplusses, present participle surplussing or surplusing, simple past and past participle surplussed or surplused)

1. (transitive) To treat as surplus to requirements; to sell off or dismiss from employment, etc.
   • 1952, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, Moroccan air base construction. 2 v, page 618:

     This employee was engaged to direct asphalt plants and inasmuch as the work for which he had been employed was completed, he was surplused and his return travel was approved […]

• upslurs

From Middle Dutch surplus, from Middle French surplus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʏr.plʏs/

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• Hyphenation: sur‧plus

surplus n (plural surplussen, diminutive surplusje n)

1. a surplus value, notably of money

   Synonym: overschot

   Antonym: tekort

2. a remaining quantity, notably stock excess

   Synonyms: restant, overschot

• surplusgoederen
• surplusvoorraad

Inherited from Middle French surplus, from Old French sorplus. Equivalent to sur- +‎ plus.

• IPA^(key): /syʁ.ply/

surplus m (plural surplus)

1. a surplus

• → Italian: surplus

• “surplus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French surplus.

• IPA^(key): /surˈplus/, /ˈsur.plus/^[1]
• Rhymes: -us, -urplus
• Hyphenation: sur‧plùs, sùr‧plus

surplus m (invariable)

1. a surplus (all senses)

surplus

1. Alternative form of surplys

Borrowed from French surplus.

surplus n (plural surplusuri)

1. surplus