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- pronunciation:
- suhr
pluhs
[or]
suhr
pl
 s
- parts of speech:
- noun, adjective
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun, adjective), Word Explorer, Word Parts
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noun |
| definition 1: |
the quantity that exceeds what is needed or required; an extra amount.
There was a surplus of winter wheat that year.- synonyms:
- excess, glut, oversupply, superfluity, surfeit
- antonyms:
- deficiency, shortage
- similar words:
- overabundance
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| definition 2: |
the excess of revenue in a budget or business over a given period of time.
- antonyms:
- deficit, shortfall
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| related words: |
abundance, balance, bloat, fat, more, overweight |
adjective + (n.)surplus
agricultural,
annual,
balanced,
bilateral,
chronic,
current,
enormous,
entire,
external,
federal,
fiscal,
growing,
huge,
large,
lost,
massive,
modest,
net,
overall,
persistent,
projected,
running,
so-called,
social,
substantial,
worldwide
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verb + (n.)surplus
accumulate, enjoy, extract, generate, maximize, produce, project, run, spend, squander
(n.)surplus
+ verb
balance, disappear, exceed, export, finance, fund, invest, materialize, shrink, sustain
noun + (n.)surplus
account,
army,
budget,
capital,
cash,
consumer,
dollar,
expenditure,
export,
fund,
labor,
operating,
pension,
portion,
producer,
projection,
saving,
security,
shortage,
trade,
trust
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| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition: |
in excess of what is necessary; extra.
- synonyms:
- excess, extra
- antonyms:
- insufficient
- similar words:
- excessive, leftover, odd, redundant, residual, spare, superfluous
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| related words: |
scrap, unnecessary |
(adj.)surplus
+ noun
animal,
auction,
capacity,
cheese,
commodity,
crop,
dealer,
deficit,
egg,
electricity,
embryo,
energy,
equipment,
farm,
farmer,
food,
gas,
good,
grain,
item,
jet,
land,
model,
oil,
plane,
plutonium,
pool,
product,
production,
property,
revenue,
rice,
sales,
stock,
store,
supply,
utility,
value,
wealth,
weapon
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The word surplus
contains the following parts:
super-, supra-, sur-2
Latin
prefix
that means above, over
  Example words:
insuperable, superable, superannuated, superfluous, superimpose, supernatural, superscript, supersede, superstructure, supervise, supervisor, supranational, supraorbital, surmount, surplus, surprise, surreal, survey, survival, survive, survivor
- synonyms:
- hyper-
- antonyms:
- sub-, hyp-, hypo-
plu, plur
Latin
root
that means more
Example words:
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