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surplus value

surplus value

 
pronunciation:
suhr pluhs vael yu [or] suhr pls vael yu
part of speech: noun
definition: in Marxist theory, the difference between the value of the products of a worker's labor and the wage he or she receives, which constitutes the profit made by a capitalist owner of land, a factory, or the like.