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surplus capacity

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meanings of surplusand capacity


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surplus
noun[C or U]
adjective
uk /ˈsɜː.pləs/ us /ˈsɝː.pləs/
(an amount that is) more than ...
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capacity
noun
uk /kəˈpæs.ə.ti/ us /kəˈpæs.ə.t̬i/
the total amount that can be contained ...
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Examples of surplus capacity


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As noted above, the board of trade sought to protect industries with surpluscapacity, unless foreign enterprises offered diversification or technology-related benefits.
This is the prospect in a country where surpluscapacity already co-exists with chronic unemployment.
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If that surpluscapacity is there, surely we should be using it for the people served by those hospitals.
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The minting of specimen sets can be undertaken only to the extent that surpluscapacity exists at the time.
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By 1975 there will be surpluscapacity of 71 million tons.
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Efforts have been made on a voluntary basis in the industry for dealing with another aspect of the problem of surpluscapacity.
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So far, therefore, the surpluscapacity seems to have had little effect on prices.
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Assistance to preserve such surpluscapacity could not be justified under the requirements for selective financial assistance.
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We are determined to reduce wasteful surpluscapacity and will apply similar criteria to all proposals for the rationalisation of school places.
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More refined sugar from beet factories must lower output at the port refineries, with consequent surpluscapacity and loss of efficiency.
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That requires a surpluscapacity which must be paid for out of the national system.
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They all had a greater or lesser extent of surpluscapacity.
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The surpluscapacity, it is said, is elsewhere in the group.
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If there is no surpluscapacity, there is no incentive to find what is the actual and competitive price.
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It gives a current surpluscapacity of 4·5 million.
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It has literally disappeared: it has not been transformed into unutilised surpluscapacity—the capacity is not there any longer.
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Every electricity user is paying for that surpluscapacity.
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They represent a way in which a hospital can generate additional income and use up surpluscapacity, thereby also generating income.
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I also described the grant which we propose to encourage the elimination of surpluscapacity, for example, four tracks where two would do.
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They have been preoccupied by the fact that they are likely to have surpluscapacity.
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