surplus

noun

1. 1

   That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus; overage.

2. 2

   Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.

3. 3

   The remainder of a fund appropriated for a particular purpose.

4. 4

   assets left after liabilities and debts, including capital stock have been deducted.

adjective

1. 1

   Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient.

   surplus population

   surplus words

   The latest shipment of goods is surplus to our needs.

   But to return to where we left her, I see her still, propped up in a kind of stupor against one of the walls in which this wretched edifice abounds, her long grey greasy hair framing in its cowl of scrofulous mats a face where pallor, languor, hunger, acne, recent dirt, immemorial chagrin and surplus hair seemed to dispute the mastery.

verb

1. 1

   To treat as surplus to requirements; to sell off or dismiss from employment, etc.

   This employee was engaged to direct asphalt plants and inasmuch as the work for which he had been employed was completed, he was surplused and his return travel was approved […]

Forms

plural

surpluses, surplusses

past tense

surplused, surplussed

past participle

surplused, surplussed

present participle

surplusing, surplussing

third person singular

surpluses, surplusses