be in surplus supply

  • 1Surplus value — is a concept created by Karl Marx in his critique of political economy, where its ultimate source is unpaid surplus labor performed by the worker for the capitalist, serving as a basis for capital accumulation.The German equivalent word Mehrwert… …

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  • 2Surplus — may refer to:* budget surplus, the opposite of a budget deficit * in economics, economic surplus (including producer surplus and consumer surplus), and capital surplus * an excess of production or supply over demand (see supply and demand) *… …

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  • 3supply — [n] reserve of goods accumulation, amount, backlog, cache, fund, hoard, inventory, number, quantity, reservoir, source, stock, stockpile, store, surplus; concept 712 Ant. debt, lack supply [v] furnish, provide, give a resource afford, cater,… …

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  • 4Supply and demand — For other uses, see Supply and demand (disambiguation). The price P of a product is determined by a balance between production at each price (supply S) and the desires of those with purchasing power at each price (demand D). The diagram shows a… …

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  • 5Surplus product — Part of a series on Marxism …

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  • 6Surplus labour — Part of a series on Marxism …

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  • 7supply — Synonyms and related words: ability, accommodate, accommodate with, accouterment, accumulation, acting, ad interim, afford, armament, assets, available means, balance, cache, capacity, capital, capital goods, capitalization, cater to, catering,… …

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  • 8surplus — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. surplusage; excess, over supply, glut; remainder, overage; profit, balance. See sufficiency. Ant., shortfall. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. surplusage, residue, plethora, overabundance; see excess 1 ,… …

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  • 9supply — [14] Latin supplēre meant ‘fill up, complete’. It was a compound verb formed from the prefix sub ‘under, from below’, hence ‘up’, and plēre ‘fill’ (source of English accomplish, complete, etc). The sense ‘provide’ evolved via the notion of… …

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  • 10surplus water — A supply of water in excess of that to which a canal proprietor is lawfully entitled for purposes of navigation. 13 Am J2d Can § 16. Water flowing over lands from adjoining premises upon which it had been spread for irrigation purposes. 30 Am J… …

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