See Also: SURPLUS(law)
Surplus(money)
surplus(dictionary)
Surplus(finance)
Budget surplus(finance)
Capital surplus(finance)
Economic surplus(finance)
Regulatory surplus(finance)
Restricted surplus(finance)
Statutory surplus(finance)

surplus (iou)



surplus noun, adjective, & verb. LME.
[Anglo-Norman, Old French so(u)rplus (mod. surplus) from medieval Latin superplus, formed as SUPER- + plus more.]
A. noun.
What remains in excess of what is needed or already used; an amount left over; spec. an excess of income or assets over expenditure or liabilities. LME.
A. Bevan Backward communities where the agricultural population is able to produce only small surpluses.
b. Politics. In some systems of election: votes transferred from a candidate who has attained the quota necessary for election to another who has not. E20.
What remains to make up a whole; the remainder, the rest. Now rare or obsolete. LME.
b. attrib. or as adjective.
More than is needed or used; excess. LME.
surplus to more than is needed for.
R. Mitchison The surplus population of the rural areas had to move to towns. M. Forster Taking care to allow the surplus ink to drip off her pen.
surplus value (Economics), that part of the value of the results of human labour which accrues beyond the amount needed to reproduce the initial labour power; gen. the excess of income over expenditure. E19.
Of a shop or goods: (selling goods) surplus to (usu. military) requirements. M20.
G. Jackson Some old surplus army blankets.
C. verb trans. Infl. -s-, *-ss-. Dispose of as surplus to requirements. Also foll. by out. Usu. in pass. US Military slang. M20.