Surplus

Quick meaning: Surplus is a noun meaning That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus; overage.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.
2. (law) The remainder of a fund appropriated for a particular purpose.
3. (law) assets left after liabilities and debts, including capital stock have been deducted.
4. Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient.
5. (transitive) To treat as surplus to requirements; to sell off or dismiss from employment, etc.

Example Sentences

surplus words

surplus population

The latest shipment of goods is surplus to our needs.

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 […]

Word Forms

• surpluses
• surplusses
• surplusing
• surplussing
• surplused
• surplussed

Synonyms for surplus

Depending on context, synonyms include overquantity, oversum, superabundance, abundance, acrasia, acrasy.

Antonyms for surplus

Common opposites include deficit, lack, shortage.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include excess, surplusage, extra, superfluous, supererogatory, redundant.

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