Look up: surplus

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   Surplus
   In the balance of payments, or in any category of international transactions within it, the surplus is the sum of credits minus the sum of debits. Also called simply the 'balance' for that category. Thus the balance of trade is the same as the surplus on trade, or the trade surplus, and similarly for merchandise trade, current account, and capital account.
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   Surplus
   The amount that remains when an insurer subtracts its liabilities and capital from its assets.
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   surplus
   the excess firm energy available from a utility or region for which there is no market at the established rates Category: Electrical engineering and energy • the excess of the actual inflow over the demand Category: Management in the public and private sector
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   Surplus
   Sur'plus noun [ French, from sur over + plus more. See Sur- , and Plus , and confer Superplus .] 1. That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus. 2. Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.
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   Surplus
   Sur'plus adjective Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient; as, surplus revenues; surplus population; surplus words. « When the price of corn falleth, men give over surplus tillage, and break no more ground.» Carew.
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   surplus
   surplusage noun a quantity much larger than is needed
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   Surplus
   * budget surplus, the opposite of a budget deficit * in economics, economic surplus (including producer surplus and consumer surplus), and capital surplus * an excess of production or supply over demand (see supply and demand) * surplus product or surplus value in Marxian economics * physical surplus in the economic theory of Piero Sraffa * operating surplus in national accounts * army or war surplus, materiel produced by the arms industry which ...
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   Surplus
   • (n.) That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus. • (n.) Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government. • (a.) Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient; as, surplus revenues; surplus popu...
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   surplus
   (from the article `economic systems`) The creation of these monuments illustrates an important general characteristic of all systems of command. Such systems, unlike those based on ...
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    surplus
    surplus 1. A quantity much larger than is needed. 2. Being more than, or in excess of, what is needed or required.
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    Surplus
    In the balance of payments, or in any category of international transactions within it, the surplus is the sum of credits minus the sum of debits. Also called simply the 'balance' for that category. Thus the balance of trade is the same as the surplus on trade, or the trade surplus, and similarly for merchandise trade, current account, and capital...
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