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

Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient.

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

(economics) A positive balance of trade.

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

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

plural of surplus value

plural of surplus killing

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

Producer surplus refers to the difference between the price which consumers paid for goods and services and the price that the firms were willing to supply it at.