Monetary benefit that accrues to parties to an economic transaction.
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Examples for "surplus "
Examples for "surplus "
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.
1 Village life, with its limited area and still more limited resources, has little economic surplus upon which parasitism can feed.
1 Such a one might base his conclusions on Germany's total surplus of annual productivity as distinct from her export surplus.
2 Overall, the total surplus at June 2014 was € 194 million, which is similar to June 2013.
3 The total surplus from federal, state and local governments and its social security system was 18 billion euros in 2014.
4 ISMA put the total surplus at about 2.5 million tonnes and said the incentive should apply to another 1.0-1.5 million tonnes.
5 In 2010, China ran a $181 billion bilateral surplus with the United States, and a total surplus of $183 billion.
1 A 119 billion pound limit on total welfare spending also has a political edge.
2 Chancellor George Osborne has said a new cap on total welfare spending will be introduced from next year.
3 Millions of public sector workers will lose automatic annual pay increases and there will be a cap on total welfare spending.
4 He also announced a cap on total welfare spending and axed winter fuel payments for expatriate pensioners in hot countries from 2015.
5 This will be supplemented by an additional £47 million from the European Social Fund, bringing the total welfare - to - work package to £416 million.
6 He said about 800,000 people were on New Zealand Superannuation which was getting close to being 50 percent of total welfare assistance spending.
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This collocation consists of: Translations for total welfare