Definition of Surplus

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Surplus

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

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

Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient; as, surplus revenues; surplus population; surplus words.

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Surplus Quotations

When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.
Ann Coulter

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Andrew Carnegie

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
Ambrose Bierce

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
Thomas Carlyle

With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
Orville Wright

A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.
John C. Calhoun

Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.
Alfred Marshall

I know each fund has its supporters, and that some will not want to see the surplus go to schools. But, in tough times, you have to set priorities. And our priority is education.
Rod Blagojevich

The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly.
Melissa Bean

The first year of the Bush administration we used up all of the surplus and ended up just with the Social Security and Medicare surplus, and each year worse than the year before.
Bobby Scott

Surplus Translations

surplus in Afrikaans is surplus
surplus in Dutch is surplus
surplus in Portuguese is excesso

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