overplus
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A delay of twenty-four hours in the despatch, after posting, is rendered indispensable by the possibility there is of an overplus of such bulky packages on particular occasions.”
From Cheap Postage by Leavitt, Joshua
His business is no longer to produce the supplies for his family and to share the small overplus with society.
From The Holy Earth by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)
Surplus, sur′plus, n. the overplus: excess above what is required.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Milford was settled partly from New Haven and partly from Wethersfield, where an overplus of clergy was leading to disputes and many withdrawals to other parts.
From The Fathers of New England A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths by Andrews, Charles McLean
If in his longer poems there is sometimes a lack of last finish, and an overplus of language—there is a frankness of utterance and a billowy undulation of movement that have compensating charms.
From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Mitchell, Donald G.
