surplus 的 3 个定义
- something that remains above what is used or needed.
- an amount, quantity, etc., greater than needed.
- agricultural produce or a quantity of food grown by a nation or area in excess of its needs, especially such a quantity of food purchased and stored by a governmental program of guaranteeing farmers a specific price for certain crops.
- Accounting. the excess of assets over liabilities accumulated throughout the existence of a business, excepting assets against which stock certificates have been issued; excess of net worth over capital-stock value.an amount of assets in excess of what is requisite to meet liabilities.
- being a surplus; being in excess of what is required: surplus wheat.
sur·plussed or sur·plused,sur·plus·sing or sur·plus·ing.
surplus 近义词
extra
extra material
更多surplus例句
- Far from helping to explain the southpaw surplus, the platoon effect must actually suppress the number of left-handed pitchers.
- I mean, don’t get me started on ethanol, because that’s the next step in reducing the surplus.
- Just a few months ago, states like New Mexico were talking about a huge budget surplus.
- Careful analysis of meteorites by Dworkin and others has found that certain “live” amino acids outnumber “evil” ones by 20% or more, a surplus they may have passed on to Earth.
- Such a property would allow them to scatter with electrons at an enhanced rate, explaining the surplus of electronic recoils.
- Scottish farmers had already been making whisky in the area for centuries with their surplus barley.
- Sergei was wearing his uniform off-duty when I met him: a khaki t-shirt and a pair of army surplus pants.
- In September 2013, the government reported a surplus of $75.1 billion.
- This is an era of change coming thick and fast after the war, and London is a city of surplus women and new class mobility.
- But we now have all this surplus military weaponry going to police forces.
- We did plan a great trip—father and mother and Tim and I—we were going to England together when the farm showed a surplus.
- If there is a surplus after satisfying the mortgage debt it must be paid to the mortgagor, or, if he is dead, to his heir.
- He even piled Cash's end of the hearth high with the surplus, after his own side was heaped full.
- He thought it desirable, he continued, that a reduction of taxes should be made to the extent of this surplus.
- But this surplus would be further reduced by a change which was proposed in the spirit duties.