Synonyms:
excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus
Meaning: 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"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
excess, surplus, surplusage, nimiety
Meaning: a quantity much larger than is needed
Usage examples
In fact, I'm pretty well cleaned out of all surplus stock.
And which help to use up the resources, the fuel and surplus energy of the world."
To invest his surplus income in the best and safest manner was the study of his life.
This is the essential thought in typical rent--that it is the value of the surplus, or net product, of an economic agent leaving the agent itself unimpaired in efficiency.
His eye caught an explanatory note: the dividend on the preferred had been cut; the surplus was heavily reduced. His mind, searching rapidly over their business, fixed upon two marginal accounts--Jim Smith's and Waldron's.
If fertilization takes place, the fertilized ovule or ovum will cling to the lining of the womb and there gather its nourishment. If fertilization does not take place, the ovum passes out of the body and the uterus throws off its surplus blood supply.
By controlling the flow of these mighty rivers, preventing disastrous floods, and storing and distributing surplus water, the ancient Babylonians developed to the full the natural resources of their country, and made it--what it may once again become--one of the fairest and most habitable areas in the world.
When the bill was made out and figured up it left him a magnificent surplus for his private account; but at the last his heart failed him, and he made out another bill more modest in its extortions. He had brought them both along, though, one in each pocket, vacillating between them as he thought first of the Merrick millions and then of the righteous anger he might incur.