| 单词 | government surplus |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgovernment surplus government surplus n. (a) unused equipment sold off by a government; (b) the surplus in a government's budget. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > surplus or excess goods glut1594 superfluities1613 government surplus1836 1836 Globe 27 Oct. The forty millions which is accumulating in the shape of a Government surplus. 1952 ‘E. C. R. Lorac’ Murder in Mill-race xv. 151 Grey blankets, (good ‘government surplus’). 1991 A. Alvarez Risk in I. Hamilton Penguin Bk. 20th-cent. Ess. 460 The prevailing style—in Britain, at least—is still government-surplus shabby. 1999 Daily Tel. 28 Oct. 33/6 The United States posted a record budget surplus..in the fiscal year to the end of September—the first back-to-back government surplus since the days of President Eisenhower. < as lemmas |
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