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surplus
noun balance, bonus, excess, expletive, glut, leavings, margin, nimiety, overabundance, overage, overflow, overmeasure, overplus, overrun, oversupply, redundance, redundancy, remainder, residue, residuum, spare, superabundance, superfluity, superplus, surfeit, surplusageAssociated concepts: accumulated surplus, distribution of surplus, surplus after sale, surplus goods, surplus income, surplus of proceeds, transfer to surplus
See also: balance, bonus, boom, excess, excessive, expendable, needless, net, overage, plethora, profuse, prosperity, redundancy, redundant, remainder, residual, residuary, superfluous, surfeit, unnecessary
SURPLUS. That which is left from a fund which has been appropriated for a
particular purpose; the remainder of a thing; the overplus the residue.
(q.v.) See 18 Ves. 466.
2. The following is an example of a surplus; if a thing be put in
pledge as a security to pay one hundred dollars, and it be afterwards sold
for one hundred and fifty dollars, the fifty dollars will be the surplus.
Wolff, Inst. Sec. 697. See Overplus; Residue.