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surplus

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surplus
Economics
a. an excess of government revenues over expenditures during a certain financial year
b. an excess of receipts over payments on the balance of payments


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So that for an hour or more, a thousand fathoms in the sea, he carries a surplus stock of vitality in him, just as the camel crossing the waterless desert carries a surplus supply of drink for future use in its four supplementary stomachs.
20 00 -------------------------------------------------------Private Surplus on the Week, Or say, Self-presented Testimonial
As it is not so, we must necessarily admit the existence of an under-current, which empties into the basin of the Atlantic through the Straits of Gibraltar the surplus waters of the Mediterranean.
 
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