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Surplus Needed Germany Suffers Teachers Trade Government Budget

query
If there is a s______ of something, there is more than is needed .If there is a surplus of something, there is more than is needed .
Germany suffers from a surplus of teachers.
word surplus
full-definition
noun
If there is a surplus of something, there is more than is needed .
Germany suffers from a surplus of teachers.
If a country has a trade surplus, it exports more than it imports .
Japan's annual trade surplus is in the region of 100 billion dollars.
If a government has a budget surplus, it has spent less than it received in taxes .
The Government also runs a modest budget surplus.
adjective
Surplus is used to describe something that is extra or that is more than is needed.
Few people have large sums of surplus cash.
I sell my surplus birds to a local pet shop.
The houses are being sold because they are surplus to requirements.
inflections surpluses
cefr-level C1

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