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overplus

[ oh-ver-pluhs ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

an excess over a particular amount; surplus:
After the harvest the overplus was distributed among the tenantry.

overplus

/ ˈəʊvəˌplʌs /

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

But the undertakers should make no private advantage of such an overplus; there might be ways enough found for it.

Consider man, as Metchnikoff describes him, with his overplus of sex energy.

The dam was full, and through a cut-off the overplus water was escaping with a roar.

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

What I was goin' to ask you, Cap'n Sproul, was whether there ain't an overplus in some departments?

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