Synonym: additional, excess, extra, leftover, spare, superfluous, supplementary. Antonym: deficit. Similar words: purple, plus, nonplussed, usurp, surprise, surprised, surprising, in surprise. Meaning: ['sɜrplʌs /'sɜːpləs] 
n. a quantity much larger than is needed. adj. more than is needed, desired, or required.
n. a quantity much larger than is needed. adj. more than is needed, desired, or required. 
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31. Harry made a packet after the war selling surplus army blankets.
32. A surplus of corn has helped depress the grain market/grain prices.
33. The increase in gas-fired power stations means traditional coal ones are becoming surplus to requirements.
34. Japan's annual trade surplus is in the region of 100 billion dollars.
35. The houses are being sold because they are surplus to requirements.
36. The kids were running around crazily , working off their surplus energy.
37. 300 workers at the factory have been told they are surplus to requirements.
38. If export and import demand is elastic, then the change in trade volumes will operate to remove the surplus.
39. The government has authorized the army to sell its surplus weapons.
40. Norway's budget surplus has fallen from 5.9% in 1986 to an expected 0.1% this year.
41. The Army is auctioning off a lot of surplus equipment.
42. It produces more than it needs, then dumps its surplus onto the world market.
43. Portugal will probably have a small current-account surplus for 1992.
44. If you eat too much, the surplus is laid down as fat.
45. The result has been a burgeoning budget surplus.
46. Financing decisions Fixed asset investment can be funded from several sources: equity, surplus cash, loans or leasing.
47. A trade surplus means more products are being exported than imported.
48. Repair of storm damage, foreign debt repayments and aid to small businesses were to be funded from the 1988 tax surplus.
49. There may be opportunities to rent out existing service property or surplus service property.
50. Sometimes we have a slight loss and sometimes a slight surplus, but over time they balance out.
51. The same effect occurs in cattle, though cattle belch out surplus methane.
52. Every atom seeks equilibrium at the lowest energy level, giving off surplus energy as radiation.
53. The method of capital accumulation is the extraction of surplus value.
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54. The capital account remained below ￡140 and a surplus of ￡32 9s. 9d. was shown on the year.
55. When a central bank buys a surplus of foreign currency it exchanges it for domestic currency, here Deutschmarks.
56. Under a fixed exchange rate a currency flow surplus is likely to persist for some time.
57. Brush away surplus after application, using a big, soft powder brush.
58. The shells power all the Exchange's plant, and also provides a small surplus that is fed into the local grid.
59. This simplifies fitting around awkward shapes. 2 Lay the vinyl in place with surplus curling up the wall.
60. Under such circumstances monopolisation would result in an increase in total surplus.
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