About The Word Surplusage
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Surplusage
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What's The Definition Of Surplusage?
[n] a quantity much larger than is needed
Synonyms | Synonyms for Surplusage: excess | surplus Related Terms | Find terms related to Surplusage: See Also | overabundance | overmuch | overmuchness | superabundance Surplusage In Webster's Dictionary \Sur"plus*age\, n. [See {Surplus}, and cf.
{Superplusage}.]
1. Surplus; excess; overplus; as, surplusage of grain or
goods beyond what is wanted.
Take what thou please of all this surplusage.
--Spenser.
A surplusage given to one part is paid out of a
reduction from another part of the same creature.
--Emerson.
2. (Law) Matter in pleading which is not necessary or
relevant to the case, and which may be rejected.
3. (Accounts) A greater disbursement than the charge of the
accountant amounts to. [Obs.] --Rees.
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