surplus

Definition:
1. A quantity much larger than is needed.
2. More than is needed, desired, or required.

Use 'surplus' in a sentence:

• 1. The unpredictability of global demand and the lag-time it takes to add more cows to a herd to meet demand can result in events like the recent cheese surplus.
• 2. Portugal will probably have a small current-account surplus for 1992.
• 3. If export and import demand is elastic, then the change in trade volumes will operate to remove the surplus.
• 4. There's a surplus of physical shopping space for the crowds, which is one reason why stores are downsizing and closing.
• 5. It resulted in an oil surplus all over the world.
• 6. There is a little surplus of raw materials.
• 7. More productive farmers meant there was a surplus that could feed cities; in turn, that created a pool of labour for factories.
• 8. Norway's budget surplus has fallen from 5.9% in 1986 to an expected 0.1% this year.
• 9. Cutting food waste and distributing the world's surplus food could help tackle hunger in some places.
• 10. The deal will net some surplus.
• 11. In a market where there appears to be a surplus, the common mistake is to tack on too many unnecessary requirements.
• 12. The government is faced with a huge surplus of the funding.
• 13. Trade makes the country possible for her surplus manufactured goods to be traded abroad for the agricultural products that would otherwise be lacking.
• 14. Surplus equipment should be turned over to the higher authorities.
• 15. Every household has surplus grain.
• 16. During the 1960's real interest rates were often higher when the national savings surplus was large.
• 17. The unpredictability of global demand and the lag time it takes to add more cows to a herd to meet demand can result in events like the recent cheese surplus.
• 18. The accounts show a surplus of 2,000 yuan.
• 19. If you eat too much, the surplus is laid down as fat.
• 20. Brazil has a big surplus of coffee.
• 21. Germany suffers from a surplus of teachers.
• 22. The balance of payments was in surplus last year.
• 23. The surplus of cabbages has driven prices down, so farmers have to get rid of them in preparation for the coming planting season.
• 24. After 10 minutes the surplus material is washed away and any remaining deposit examined with ultra violet light.
• 25. Countries enjoying surpluses will be under no pressure to revalue their currencies.
• 26. Japan is in the enviable position of having a budget surplus.
• 27. More productive farmers meant there was a surplus that could feed cities; in turn, that created a pool of labor for factories.
• 28. Surplus snowfall is essential for a glacier to develop.
• 29. Employers seeing a surplus of college graduates and looking to fill jobs are just adding that requirement.
• 30. These goods are surplus to requirements.
• 31. The houses are being sold because they are surplus to requirements.
• 32. There is a vicious circle going on& prosperity, surplus, depression.
• 33. The invisible trade surplus was £ 200 million lower than reported.
• 34. Japan, unlike other big economies, is in the enviable position of having a budget surplus.
• 35. The Army is auctioning off a lot of surplus equipment.
• 36. Surplus grain is being sold for export.
• 37. It was these conditions that allowed an elite to emerge, probably as an organizing class, and to sustain itself through the control of surplus crops.
• 38. It produces more than it needs, then dumps its surplus onto the world market.
• 39. Wheat was in surplus that year.
• 40. These items are surplus to requirements.
• 41. I sell my surplus birds to a local pet shop.
• 42. The reckoning up of revenue and expenditure shows a small surplus.
• 43. Few people have large sums of surplus cash.
• 44. The country's trade surplus widened to 16.5 billion dollars.
• 45. A surplus allows snow to accumulate and for the pressure of snow accumulated over the years to transform buried snow into glacial ice with a depth great enough for the ice to flow.
• 46. Japan's annual trade surplus is in the region of 100 billion dollars.
• 47. The doctrine of surplus value is the cornerstone of Marx's economic theory.
• 48. Surplus resources alone do not guarantee growth.