overplus

American  

[oh-ver-pluhs] / ˈoʊ vərˌplʌs /

noun

1. an excess over a particular amount; surplus.

   After the harvest the overplus was distributed among the tenantry.

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overplus British  

/ ˈəʊvəˌplʌs /

noun

1. surplus or excess quantity

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Etymology

Origin of overplus

1350–1400; Middle English; partial translation of Old French surplus surplus

Example Sentences

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overplus

Their silence is more eloquent than words, Their passing out is but life's overplus, Their tongues are tempered into two-edged swords.

From Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation by Richmond, Hiram Hoyt

There is also an overplus of conversation through the thing that seems like talking at a mark for $2 a week.

From Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) by Nye, Bill

If in his longer poems there is sometimes a lack of last finish, and an overplus of language—there is a frankness of utterance and a billowy undulation of movement that have compensating charms.

From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Mitchell, Donald G.

She has overplus of life to speak and right herself from first to last, to pardon her husband and make arrangements for the welfare of her child.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward

The overplus, if any, was to be carried to the credit of the Sooloos.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XLIII, 1670-1700 by Various

Related Words

• glut
• plethora
• profusion