overplus
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of overplus
1350–1400; Middle English; partial translation of Old French surplus surplus
Example Sentences
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Why should this overplus, of more than seven millions of pounds of meal, be sent to this prison, when the army of Virginia was calling loudly for grain?
From Martyria or Andersonville Prison by Augustus C. Hamlin
Milford was settled partly from New Haven and partly from Wethersfield, where an overplus of clergy was leading to disputes and many withdrawals to other parts.
From The Fathers of New England A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths by Charles McLean Andrews
And in this sense it was perfectly normal, healthy, and sound, more especially in so far as it provided for the gradual drawing away overplus metal to the East.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by William Arthur Shaw
At the end of each year, the account is balanced, and the overplus or deficit is transferred to the succeeding one.
From Religion in Japan by George A. (George Augustus) Cobbold
Let Nature but interpose a sheet of water or a bit of wood, and the merriest joy-bells that ever rang are infused with that melancholy which is the overplus of rapture.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 by Various
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