Usually means: Excess amount more than needed.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word surplus:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. surplus: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. surplus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. surplus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. surplus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. surplus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Surplus, surplus: Wordnik
  7. surplus: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. surplus: Wiktionary
  9. surplus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. surplus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. surplus: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. surplus: Dictionary.com
  13. surplus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. surplus: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Surplus (film), Surplus, The Surplus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Surplus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. surplus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. surplus: Rhymezone
  19. surplus, surplus (het), surplus (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. surplus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Surplus: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. surplus: Free Dictionary
  23. surplus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. surplus: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. surplus: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. SURPLUS: Accounting Glossary
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Surplus: FACS Journalist's Guide to Economic Terms
  7. Surplus: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  8. Health Insurance Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  10. Surplus: Investopedia
  11. surplus: Legal dictionary
  12. Surplus (economics), surplus: Financial dictionary
  13. Surplus: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  14. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. surplus: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SURPLUS: Energy Terms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus.
noun:  Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.
noun:  (law) The remainder of a fund appropriated for a particular purpose.
noun:  (law) assets left after liabilities and debts, including capital stock have been deducted.
adjective:  Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient.
verb:  (transitive) To treat as surplus to requirements; to sell off or dismiss from employment, etc.

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