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surplusing

surplusing is the present participle and gerund of surplus.

Meaning of surplus

Verb

surplus (third-person singular simple present surpluses or surplusses, present participle surplusing or surplussing, simple past and past participle surplused or surplussed)

  1. (transitive) To treat as surplus to requirements; to sell off or dismiss from employment, etc.
    • This employee was engaged to direct asphalt plants and inasmuch as the work for which he had been employed was completed, he was surplused and his return travel was approved […]1952, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, Moroccan air base construction. 2 v, page 618

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What is surplusing the present participle and gerund of?
Surplusing is the present participle and gerund of surplus.

Words near surplusing in the dictionary

  1. surplus values
  2. surplusage
  3. surplusages
  4. surplused
  5. surpluses
  6. surplusing
  7. surplussed
  8. surplusses
  9. surplussing
  10. surpoose
  11. surpooses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: surplusing (page history and authors); surplus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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