SURPLUS

n. a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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

2.
n.

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

3.
a.

Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient; as, surplus revenues; surplus population; surplus words. When the price of corn falleth, men give over surplus tillage, and break no more ground. Carew.


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