Sentences with surplus
sur·plus
S s - Germany suffers from a surplus of teachers. [+ of]
- Few people have large sums of surplus cash.
- The opposite of surplus is deficit, for both its senses.
- Japan's annual trade surplus is in the region of 100 billion dollars.
- Norway's budget surplus has fallen from 5.9% in 1986 to an expected 0.1% this year.
- The trade surplus is likely to persist, and reserve assets, after all, are generating interest incomes.A pension fund has a surplus when its assets exceed its obligations to current and future pensioners.A surplus is an excess of total assets over total liabilities.
- A charity's surplus at the end of a financial year is not liable to taxation.Not-for-profit institutions treat a surplus of operating revenues over operating costs as a profit that they are not supposed to make.A surplus is an excess of revenue over expenditure during a particular accounting period.
- surplus wheat.
- The government surplussed some of its desert lands.