That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus.

(transitive) To treat as surplus to requirements; to sell off or dismiss from employment, etc.

Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient.

(accounting) A balance sheet item under shareholders' equity. Increases by the value above an original par value per share that newly issued shares are sold for.

An agricultural production that exceeds the needs of the society for which it is being produced, and may be exported or stored for future times.

(Marxism) labour performed in excess of the labour necessary to produce the means of livelihood of the worker

plural of surplus value

(Marxism) The part of the new value made by production that is taken by enterprises as generic gross profit.

(economics) A positive balance of trade.

The behaviour of a predator that kills more prey than it can immediately eat and then caches or abandons the remainder.