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Sentence count:162+13Posted:2017-02-17Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: additionalexcessextraleftoversparesuperfluoussupplementaryAntonym: deficitSimilar words: purpleplusnonplussedusurpsurprisesurprisedsurprisingin surpriseMeaning: ['sɜrplʌs /'sɜːpləs]  n. a quantity much larger than is needed. adj. more than is needed, desired, or required. 
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61. The trade balance, after oscillating between surplus and deficit in the 1970s, has stuck obstinately in the red since 1981.
62. By 1942, however, we possessed something no other country did: a huge surplus of hydroelectric power.
63. As a result of several bumper harvests, the country now has a grain surplus.
64. The balance is kept to a minimum, and any temporary surplus is used to reduce government borrowing.
65. In fact, in several countries, food production is at surplus levels, making exportation to neighboring countries possible.
66. In post-colonial economies there is a continuing reliance on raising levels of absolute rather than the relative surplus value of labour.
67. This assumes that banks have surplus liquidity in the first place.
68. The panels or arrays are used to run electrical appliances or systems and are connected to batteries to store surplus power.
69. The difference between the two is the surplus value which the capitalist can extract from the workers.
70. The surplus, as a result, has diminished to 6000 bushels.
71. After removing the tape, pare away any surplus adhesive with a razor blade.
72. The monopolist is normally considered to exploit consumers by charging a high price and thereby destroying some consumer surplus.
73. In that way housing associations could immediately buy up many of the surplus properties that are currently available on the housing market.
74. As a result private entrepreneurs were driven to combine into monopoly cartels and to reinvest surplus capital abroad.
75. In addition, the bill authorizes the General Services Administration to sell federal land in Florida that is considered surplus.
76. Even the smallest county town could become the Mecca of the surplus rural population.
77. The state then determines how this surplus value will be used to serve its objectives and to provide goods to certain actors.
78. In 1988, 460,000 students were graduating nationwide, but there was a demand for 700,000 a shortfall, not a surplus.
79. The more heavily overweight people are, the more swiftly they can shed surplus fat on a slimming diet.
80. The government is running a large budget surplus and expects to carry on doing so.
81. Once the eggs have hatched all surplus rockwork can be removed, to ensure that fry do not get trapped under it.
82. Waste of land is thus avoided, and there is a surplus of top-quality produce for sale in late autumn and winter.
83. This financial surplus will be in the form of increased holdings of bank notes, bank deposits and shares, etc.
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84. There, illegal immigration contributes to a labour surplus that is depressing farm wages and making working conditions worse.
85. Also, the pressure on interest rates has been down and the balance of trade has shifted into surplus.
86. So during a week you would be likely to shed one pound of surplus fat.
87. We can now evaluate the effects of this change in terms of the alteration in surplus.
88. Dad may not have been endowed with a surplus of brain-matter, but he was no fool.
89. Turn the bag inside out, shake off the surplus moisture and replace the bag inside-out on the canes.
90. Although the city could get the surplus military helicopters for free, it must pay to maintain and operate them.
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