trade surplus
surplus
adjective
uk /ˈsɜːpləs/us
more than is needed or used:
As the economy slowed, companies that had invested surplus funds in the stock market found their returns dwindling.
The form of the payout of surplus cash to investors will be revealed in May.

Examples of surplus

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Under specific circumstances this organization allowed for a flexible and economically efficient allocation of land, promoting the growth of agrarian surpluses.
The system drifted from an initial phase of large surpluses to increasing deficits and ultimate crisis.
On the supply side, with low prices, producers do not receive an adequate incentive or generate surpluses to invest in production expansion.
On minor issues, such as the carrying forward of budget surpluses into the following financial year, it strongly resisted departmental requests for greater flexibility.
In the objective (1), we assume that voters penalize the politicians for savings, that is, primary surpluses, exceeding the people's willingness to support retrenchment.
Economic surpluses are efficiently directed to the geographic core from peripheral areas without the wastefulness of a cumbersome political superstructure.
The failure of monsoons could halt the growth of warehouse surpluses while the voracious appetite of an expanding field army increased demands upon them.
Most industrial countries had achieved sustained food surpluses by the second half of the twentieth century.
Since many rural households face constraints of all sorts when they turn to capital markets, they are often forced to invest their own accumulated surpluses.
When rainfall events are positively correlated, surpluses and shortages occur at the same time in both regions.
However, surpluses on single farms reach 85 kg ha -1.
If they are not rather elastic over the ranges of concern, governments will find it hard not to pay large suppliers' surpluses.
After 1815, despite the depression, most lighthouses were still generating large surpluses.
Quotas became a popular contract criterion, and households were entitled to retain their production surpluses.
Future emphasis of agricultural policy ought to be on maximizing rural household incomes rather than generating food surpluses.
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Collocations withsurplus

surplus

These are words often used in combination with surplus.

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agricultural surplus
The challenges of mobilising agriculturalsurplus would then loom large on the reform agenda if the country is to undertake a vigorous industrialisation drive.
annual surplus
I do not mean that it should be reduced so as to extinguish absolutely the annualsurplus.
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