budget surplus• A budget surplus of EC$12,300,000 was predicted on the currentaccount.• The result has been a burgeoningbudget surplus.• The government is running a large budget surplus and expects to carry on doing so.• Interest rates can be cut and Bill Clinton's budget surplus spent.• Bush spent the campaignpretending that this was an election about the budget surplus, or socialsecurity or the military.• The budget surplus of A$8,107 million was the fourthconsecutive surplus, and would be used to reduce overseas debt.
surplus2 ●○○adjectiveadj
1TOO/TOO MUCHmore than what is needed or used 过剩的,剩余的,多余的
Ethiopia has no surplus food.
埃塞俄比亚没有多余的食物。
surplus cash/funds/revenues
Surplus cash can be invested.
多余的钱可以进行投资。
2be surplus to requirementsBritish EnglishBrE formalNEED# to be no longer necessary 不再被需要
He found out he was surplus to requirements in London and left.
他发现自己留在伦敦是多余的,于是就离开了。
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be surplus to requirements• It may be some time yet before Mansell's servicesare surplus to requirements.• It was very pale and had no expression, as though expressions were surplus to requirements.• Most housing developersbelieve about 30,000 of these are surplus to requirements.• So now you have a new baby, your 15-year-old is surplus to requirements.• The social services department says the three homes are surplus to requirements.
2[countableC, uncountableU]FINANCE in MUTUALs (=insurance companies etc that do not have shareholders) the profit for a particular period of time, or from several periods of time, that has not been paid out to members
The life insurance company had capital and surplus totaling $459.2 million.
3[countableC]FINANCE in insurance companies and PENSION FUNDs, the amount by which the money held is more than they have to pay out in claims or pensions
The steelworks pensioners joined the fight to get a share of a £300 million British Steel pension surplus.
4[countableC] (also balance of payments surplus or, external surplus)ECONOMICS the amount by which the money coming into a country is more than the money going out in a particular period of time
A country that has a balance of payments surplus may receive payment from the debtor’s foreign exchange reserves.