surplus - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • accumulate: The relevant Head of Department is responsible for any accumulated surplus or deficit once a CET account has been closed.
  • declare: Where a property or land is declared surplus the Council will require evidence that it is no longer an essential local facility.
  • generate: The sector exported £ 14.2 billion in 1994, generating a trade surplus of £ 2.6 billion.
  • accrue: The project identified some solutions to achieving flexibility, including allowing users to accrue a surplus for contingencies.
  • divert: Right away that way into certain divert the surplus.

Adjective modifier

  • retained: The HDC's retained revenue surplus is large and to an extent unplanned.
  • projected: The board further noted that the college budget for the year had moved from a small projected surplus to a deficit of £ 73,000.
  • agricultural: The government would buy up all the agricultural surpluses against the day of shortages.
  • net: The final figure will be the net surplus or deficit for the period.

Modifies a noun

  • plutonium: The Pit Disassembly and Conversion Facility is a key component of the Administration's effort to dispose of surplus weapons plutonium.
  • embryo: They are obtained from surplus embryos produced throughout the world in the course of infertility treatment.
  • monies: This document outlines the organization's treasury policy regarding the investment of surplus monies and the raising of capital finance.
  • asset: There are no other significant possibilities for sale of surplus assets or asset disposal.
  • cash: The Society was able to invest surplus cash in land.
  • fund: You get a say in how Veggies spends any surplus funds at the end of the summer.

Noun used with modifier

  • revaluation: The statement requires that the provision established should have regard to the manner in which the revaluation surplus will be realized.
  • army: Jeez - you can still buy the real thing down the army surplus store for fourteen quid.
  • budget: At the same time the government is claiming to have amassed a current budget surplus of £ 23 billion last year.
  • operating: There will be no shareholders, and any operating surplus will be used for the benefit of the railroad system.
  • consumer: Table 1 summarizes the results from a set of travel cost studies that have estimated visitor consumer surplus for various national parks.

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