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What does "surplus" mean?

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

Additional senses

  1. 2.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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