surplus meaning
EN
[ˈsɝpləs] [ˈsɜːpləs] WSurplus
- Surplus may refer to:
- Economic surplus, one of various supplementary values
- Excess supply
- Government budget surplus
- Surplus: Terrorized into Being Consumers, a documentary film
- Surplus value, surplus labour, surplus product in Marxian economics
- "The Surplus", an episode of The Office
FR surplus 
- NounPLsurplusesPLsurplussesPREsur-
- That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus.
- Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.
- (law) The remainder of a fund appropriated for a particular purpose.
- (law) assets left after liabilities and debts, including capital stock have been deducted.
- That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus.
- Adjective
- Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient; as, surplus revenues; surplus population; surplus words.
- An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
- Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient; as, surplus revenues; surplus population; surplus words.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- [ …] and also by all accounts of the surplus which shall from time to time be settled between the new company and the liquidators of the old company [ …]
- An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
- ...carbon bisulphide, chloride of sulphur and sulphur precipitating substances, the surplus rubber adhering to the hide being then slickered off and finished with a cloth dipped in a rubber solvent.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of surplus in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
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- fr surplus
- en surpluses
- en surplusage
- en surplusses
- en surplusages
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "surplus" is an adjective, more specifically, an uncomparable adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.