A quantity much larger than is needed.
Monetary benefit that accrues to parties to an economic transaction.
More than is needed, desired, or required.
1 The surplus of supply in Europe forced sellers to fight for buyers.
2 China accounts for 200 million tonnes of the surplus capacity, he said.
3 The surplus is a 36 per cent increase on the previous year.
4 The fact is, however, that we simply have been surplus to requirement.
5 Any surplus from speed awareness courses goes right back into road safety.
6 The surplus waters are lost in the rivers or in the sea.
7 Therefore, any reduction in the surplus goal would be minor, they said.
8 Greece would not have to produce a big budget surplus this year.
9 Osborne told the BBC: We've taken judgments to get that budget surplus .
10 We'll sell on surplus whole birds for use in other food products.
11 South Korea has been running a trade surplus with China since 1993.
12 New Zealand has recorded a trade surplus , led by record-high lamb exports.
13 Analysts polled by Reuters expected a 10 billion euro surplus in September.
14 New Zealand has posted a trade surplus for the month of June.
15 The Philippines and Alaska had drained the Pacific coast of surplus labor.
16 If China consumed more, imports would rise, narrowing a ballooning trade surplus .
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