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.

(accounting) A balance sheet item under shareholders' equity. Increases by the value above an original par value per share that newly issued shares are sold for.

An agricultural production that exceeds the needs of the society for which it is being produced, and may be exported or stored for future times.

(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

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