economic surplus noun [C,U]

(Economics )

a situation where a business, a country, etc. makes more profit over a period of time than it spends or owes; the difference between these amounts:

The country now enjoys an economic surplus after years of deficit.

Advances in technology have generated millions of dollars in economic surplus for these farmers.

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