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Disbursement vs Surplusage - What's the difference?

disbursement | surplusage |

As nouns the difference between disbursement and surplusage

is that disbursement is the act, instance, or process of disbursing while surplusage is a surplus; a superabundance.

disbursement

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act, instance, or process of disbursing.
  • Money paid out or spent.

    • surplusage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A surplus; a superabundance.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vii:
    • If then thee list my offred grace to vse, / Take what thou please of all this surplusage ; / If thee list not, leaue haue thou to refuse
  • * Emerson
    • A surplusage given to one part is paid out of a reduction from another part of the same creature.
  • (legal) Matter in pleading which is not necessary or relevant to the case, and may be rejected.
  • (finance) A greater disbursement than the charge of the accountant amounts to.
    • (Rees)