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surplus

/sur-pluhs, -pluhs/US // ˈsɜr plʌs, -pləs //UK // (ˈsɜːpləs) //

剩余,剩余的,盈余,过剩

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : being a surplus; being in excess of what is required: surplus wheat.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    sur·plussed or sur·plused,sur·plus·sing or sur·plus·ing.

    • : to treat as surplus; sell off; retire: The government surplussed some of its desert lands.

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Examples

  • 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.