Word Meanings - OVERPLUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That which remains after a supply, or beyond a quantity proposed; surplus. Shak. "The overplus of a great fortune." Addison.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OVERPLUS)

• Surplus
• Redundancy
• remainder
• rest
• overplus
• residue
• excess
• balance

Related words: (words related to OVERPLUS)

• SURPLUS
  1. That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus. 2. Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.
• BALANCEMENT
  The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. Darwin.
• RESIDUE
  That part of a testeator's estate wwhich is not disposed of in his will by particular and special legacies and devises, and which remains after payment of debts and legacies. (more info) that is left behind, remaining, fr. residere to
• OVERPLUS
  That which remains after a supply, or beyond a quantity proposed; surplus. Shak. "The overplus of a great fortune." Addison.
• EXCESS
  out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum, to go out, go 1. The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness;
• EXCESSIVE
  Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
• BALANCEABLE
  Such as can be balanced.
• BALANCER
  In Diptera, the rudimentary posterior wing. (more info) 1. One who balances, or uses a balance.
• BALANCE
  A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary). The constellation Libra. The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September. 8. A movement in dancing. See Balance, v. i.,
• BALANCEREEF
  The last reef in a fore-and-aft sail, taken to steady the ship.
• REMAINDER
  The quantity or sum that is left after subtraction, or after any deduction. (more info) 1. Anything that remains, or is left, after the separation and removal of a part; residue; remnant. "The last remainders of unhappy Troy." Dryden. If these
• REMAINDER-MAN
  One who has an estate after a particular estate is determined. See Remainder, n., 3. Blackstone.
• BALANCE WHEEL
  A wheel which imparts regularity to the movements of any engine or machine; a fly wheel. (more info) A wheel which regulates the beats or pulses of a watch or chronometer, answering to the pendulum of a clock; -- often called simply a balance.
• SURPLUSAGE
  Matter in pleading which is not necessary or relevant to the case, and which may be rejected. (more info) 1. Surplus; excess; overplus; as, surplusage of grain or goods beyond what is wanted. Take what thou please of all this surplusage. Spenser.
• COUNTERBALANCE
  To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance. The remaining air was not able to counterbalance the mercurial cylinder. Boyle. The cstudy of mind is necessary
• OVERBALANCE
  1. To exceed equality with; to outweigh. Locke. 2. To cause to lose balance or equilibrium.
• OUTBALANCE
  To outweight; to exceed in weight or effect. Let dull Ajax bear away my right When all his days outbalance this one night. Dryden.
• UNBALANCED
  Not adjusted; not settled; not brought to an equality of debt and credit; as, an unbalanced account; unbalanced books. 3. Being, or being thrown, out of equilibrium; hence, disordered or deranged in sense; unsteady; unsound; as, an unbalanced mind.
• EQUIBALANCE
  Equal weight; equiponderance.
• WEAL-BALANCED
  Balanced or considered with reference to public weal. Shak.
• CONSUMER'S SURPLUS
  The excess that a purchaser would be willing to pay for a commodity over that he does pay, rather than go without the commodity; -- called also consumer's rent. The price which a person pays for a thing can never exceed, and seldom comes up to,
• PRODUCER'S SURPLUS; PRODUCER'S RENT
  Any profit above the normal rate of interest and wages accruing to a producer on account of some monopoly of the means or materials of production; -- called also Producer's rent.