overplus
Example Sentences
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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
She has overplus of life to speak and right herself from first to last, to pardon her husband and make arrangements for the welfare of her child.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
The overplus, if any, was to be carried to the credit of the Sooloos.
There is also an overplus of conversation through the thing that seems like talking at a mark for $2 a week.
From Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) by Bill Nye
And if there be fewer, the overplus may be omitted: Provided that this last Collect, Epistle, and Gospel shall always be used upon the Sunday next before Advent.
From The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy by Episcopal Church in Scotland