surplus

Definitions

1. 1.Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.
2. 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.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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