NOUN
  1. extreme excess
    an embarrassment of riches
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How To Use overplus In A Sentence

  • Nothing was left over — it was a discreditable thing to have any overplus at all. In the Days of the Comet
  • overplus" lands, 101 acres in, called the 12th draught of, deeded to Gideon Searl by administrator of Josiah Searl, representatives, ..... shirts, etc., for army, Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
  • ‘It is chiefly among the Dutch and German settlers that vegetables are cultivated; and the overplus beyond their family wants is occasionally offered for sale.’
  • To travel through the world it is necessary to have the mouth of hog, the legs of a stag, the eyes of a falcon, the ears of an ass, shoulders of a camel, and the face of an ape, and overplus, a satchel full of money and patience. 
  • To travel through the world it is necessary to have the mouth of hog, the legs of a stag, the eyes of a falcon, the ears of an ass, shoulders of a camel, and the face of an ape, and overplus, a satchel full of money and patience. 
  • A well-known one is the pun in Sonnet 135 where he uses the word ‘will’ 13 times with the double meaning of her will or volition and him, ‘William’: ‘Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will, / And Will to boot, and Will in overplus.’
  • They may profit by an "overplus," or be paid by the length of a "run" of their plays, or may sell them out-right at once for a stipulated sum. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character
  • To travel through the world it is necessary to have the mouth of hog, the legs of a stag, the eyes of a falcon, the ears of an ass, shoulders of a camel, and the face of an ape, and overplus, a satchel full of money and patience. 
  • They project onto others the sins that they themselves commit, in overplus.
  • To travel through the world it is necessary to have the mouth of hog, the legs of a stag, the eyes of a falcon, the ears of an ass, shoulders of a camel, and the face of an ape, and overplus, a satchel full of money and patience. 
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