overplus
Example Sentences
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His face—that of a man whom a sufficiency, but not an overplus, of food and wine and tobacco had put into just accord with the World about him—expressed little but bewilderment.
From Abington Abbey A Novel by Archibald Marshall
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 L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
They possess indeed two distinct diets; they do not preserve for the period of famine the overplus of the foods which they consume in the period of abundance.
From The Industries of Animals by Frédéric Houssay
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 Joshua Leavitt
The overplus, if any, was to be carried to the credit of the Sooloos.