overplus
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At the end of each year, the account is balanced, and the overplus or deficit is transferred to the succeeding one.
From Religion in Japan by George A. (George Augustus) Cobbold
Each overplus and each deficiency You will make good.
From Italy, the Magic Land by Lilian Whiting
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 Donald G. Mitchell
Now it is clear that in this case a schoolmaster can subsist; since, in the course of the very first year, he gets an overplus beyond this dock-money of his office.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle
Foremost is the sun, of course, because of the overplus of light.
From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by David Peck Todd
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