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excess | American Dictionary

excess
noun[ U ]
us/ɪkˈses, ˈek·ses/
an amount that is more than acceptable, expected, or reasonable:
They both eat to excess (= a lot more than they need).
The company’s losses are in excess of (= more than) $5 million.

excessive

adjectiveus/ɪkˈses·ɪv/
We felt the charges were excessive.
excess
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ɪkˈses, ˈek·ses/
more than is necessary; too much:
excess baggage

excess | Business English

excess
noun
uk /ɪkˈses/us
[ S or U ]
an amount that is more than is needed, expected, or acceptable:
If you retire having saved more than £1.4m you will face a one-off 33% tax charge on the excess.
Any excess over these expenses represents profit attributable to shareholders.
excess of sthThere is still, in many industries, an excess of productive capacity.
[ S ] INSURANCE UK(USdeductible)
a part of the cost of an accident, injury, etc. that you agree to pay yourself when you buy insurance:
Cover would cost £239 a year with a £75 excess, or £215 a year with a £250 excess.
excess on sthThe policy carries a £40 excess on most claims.
 in excess of
more than:
Last year he earned in excess of $3 million.
The Fund will not borrow money in excess of one-third of the value of its net assets.
excess
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /ɪkˈses/us
more than is needed, expected, or acceptable:
Rents may be lower than ownership costs, meaning renters can invest the excess cash.
The machine can generate electricity using excess heat that would otherwise be wasted.

Examples of excess

excess
The second part returns to the idea that an excess of privatisation has led to a 'tragedy of the anti-commons'.
Lifetime costs were based on life tables adjusted for excess mor tality of stroke, and costs in year 4 were extrapolated to subsequent years.
As already noted, early levels of excess mortality tended to be found in the 1 to 4 years age group.
They refer to any wage in excess of this minimum as a rent.
Even in the 1920s, when demand was expanding, an excess continued to keep prices down in most salons.
How else can justice be done to its bigness, to the different dimensions of excess that are part of its history?
However, not all age groups demonstrated a female excess.
Using this measure, the depletion (accumulation) of natural capital stocks in excess of economically efficient rates may increase income.
By shedding excess and approaching sung dialogue as if it were speech, singers were to be singing actors - the imperative of a musical dramatic art.
Thus, the elimination of volatility may lead to welfare gains and simultaneous effects on mean and excess returns.
There were serious efforts in the late eleventh century to cleanse the hymn repertory of certain excesses.
In this regard, there are echoes of the central problem addressed here concerning an excess of poorly defined terms that are ill-constrained in their usage.
These are the excess volatility or learning equilibria of our model.
This is a drawback when the number of atomic data is huge, as happens in dense plasmas, because the computer time increases in excess.
The excess admissions attributable to each influenza epidemic were then estimated as the difference between the rates predicted using the observed and baseline consultation rates.
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