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Surplus vs Exceeding - What's the difference?

surplus | exceeding |

As nouns the difference between surplus and exceeding

is that surplus is that which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus while exceeding is the situation of being in excess.

As adjectives the difference between surplus and exceeding

is that surplus is being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient; as, surplus revenues; surplus population; surplus words while exceeding is prodigious.

As a verb exceeding is

present participle of lang=en.

As an adverb exceeding is

exceedingly.

surplus

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus.
  • Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.
  • (legal) The remainder of a fund appropriated for a particular purpose.
  • (legal) assets left after liabilities and debts, including capital stock have been deducted.

    • Antonyms

    * lack * deficit

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient; as, surplus revenues; surplus population; surplus words.
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    exceeding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) prodigious
  • (archaic) exceptional, extraordinary
  • (archaic) extreme

    • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (archaic) Exceedingly.
  • *, II.7:
    • Those which write the life of Augustus Cæsar , note this in his military discipline, that he was exceeding liberall and lavish in his gifts to such as were of any desert.
  • * 1905 , The Myths of Plato , page 442:

    • Usage notes

    * The adverbial usage was very common in the 17th and 18th centuries, but is now considered archaic.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) The situation of being in excess.
  • * 1812 , Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command , page 198:
    • I have to say it appears to me in the first place, that the exceedings of expenditure beyond estimate appearing upon that account, do not give to the Grand Canal company the slightest legal right to any public money

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