Synonyms for Surplus
ˈsɜr plʌs, -pləssur·plus

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1. surplusnoun

   Antonyms:
   lack, deficit

2. surplusnoun

   Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient; as, surplus revenues; surplus population; surplus words.

   Antonyms:
   deficit, lack

3. surplusnoun

   Antonyms:
   deficit, lack

4. surplusnoun

   Antonyms:
   deficit, lack

5. surplusnoun

   Antonyms:
   lack, deficit

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1. surplus

   Excess is more than enough of anything, and, since this in very many cases indicates a lack either of judgment or of self-control, the word is used frequently in an unfavorable sense. Careless expenditure in excess of income is extravagance; we may have also extravagance of language, professions, etc. As extravagance is excess in outlay, exorbitance is excess in demands, and especially in pecuniary demands upon others. Overplus and superabundance denote in the main a satisfactory, and superfluity an undesirable, excess; lavishness and profusion, a generous, bountiful, or amiable excess; as, a profusion of fair hair; lavishness of hospitality. Surplus is neutral, having none of the unfavorable meaning that often attaches to excess; a surplus is that which remains over after all demands are met. Redundance or redundancy refers chiefly to literary style, denoting an excess of words or matter. Excess in the moral sense is expressed by dissipation, prodigality, intemperance, etc.

   Synonyms:
   dissipation, excess, exorbitance, extravagance, intemperance, lavishness, overplus, prodigality, profusion, redundance, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, waste, wastefulness

   Antonyms:
   dearth, defect, deficiency, destitution, economy, failure, frugality, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, need, poverty, scantiness, shortcoming, want

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1. surplus

   Synonyms:
   redundancy, remainder, rest, overplus, residue, excess, balance

   Antonyms:
   deficiency, deficit, shortcoming

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1. excess, surplus, surplusage, nimietyadjective

   a quantity much larger than is needed

   Synonyms:
   surplusage, overabundance, inordinateness, excessiveness, surfeit, surplus, nimiety, overindulgence, excess

   Antonyms:
   necessary

2. excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplusadjective

   more than is needed, desired, or required

   "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy"

   Synonyms:
   superfluous, senseless, surplus, unembellished, supererogatory, scanty, spare, otiose, wasted, pleonastic, unornamented, extra, free, plain, redundant, supernumerary, excess, purposeless, additional, tautological, special, tautologic, trim, bare(a), bare, pointless

   Antonyms:
   necessary

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1. surplusnoun

   Synonyms:
   overplus, residue, excess, surplusage

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1. surplusnoun

   Synonyms:
   surplusage, excess, overplus, residue, remainder

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1. List of paraphrases for "surplus":

   excess, surpluses, supernumerary, glut, thousand-megawatt, overage, oversupply, remaining, redundant, overages, overproduction, remainder, residual

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1. Hillary Clinton:

   If you look at the evidence, at the end of Bill Clinton's two terms, we had the longest peacetime expansion in American history with 22 million new jobs, a balanced budget and a surplus that would have paid off our national debt if it had not been rudely interrupted by the next administration.

2. Amir Gerges:

   If we find surplus cash at the end of the year, or if oil prices respond quickly in a certain year, we can easily reinvest that for near term cash flow.

3. Saket Tiku:

   We have surplus oxygen at plants which are far off from places where it is needed right now. Trucking oxygen is a challenge from these plants, we have ramped up the production as oxygen consumption is rising through the roof. But we have limitations and the biggest challenge right now is transporting it to where its urgently needed.

4. Hampshire Kasich:

   You know what, I've got as much a right as anybody in the Republican Party to define what conservatism means, i was the governor of Ohio that took an $ 8 billion hole and produced a surplus. We've cut taxes more than anybody in the country, and they're wondering about my conservatism ? Maybe I should wonder about theirs.

5. Sean Penn:

   Only the U.S. constitution could sideline his presidency... As the administration that followed squandered the surplus with misguided wars, the devastation we face today would have been tempered today if he (Clinton) had continued as our commander in chief.