growing surplus
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgrowingandsurplus
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growing
adjective
uk/ˈɡrəʊ.ɪŋ/us/ˈɡroʊ.ɪŋ/
increasing in size ...
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surplus
noun[C or U]
adjective
uk/ˈsɜː.pləs/us/ˈsɝː.pləs/
(an amount that is) more than ...
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(Definition ofgrowingandsurplusfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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On security, there is agrowingsurplusof oil and steady diversification of world sources.
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We have heard to-day how there isgrowingsurpluscapacity throughout the whole world.
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They can no longer expect to be subsidised for producing products that are already ingrowingsurplusand for which there are no markets.
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Instead of a deficit there will be a surplus, and agrowingsurplus, on the world market.
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This has revealed a substantial andgrowingsurplus.
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There is, however, agrowingsurplusof oil and a steadily increasing diversification of world sources.
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These demonstrate that there would be a substantial andgrowingsurplusof capacity.
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It is true that there will be agrowingsurplusafter the mid-1980s, but even then the sums are small compared with the cost of present-day up-ratings.
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I think we may take it as absolutely certain that they will never make such a mess of anygrowingsurplusas they did over butter.
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Despite all the losses that the fund has taken and all that has gone on, there is still a massive and steadilygrowingsurplus, which currently stands at £20 billion.
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So it forecasts a substantial andgrowingsurpluson the balance of payments, and argues against any resort to temporary import restrictions to hasten the return to current balance.
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By this time the school was getting richer on the proceeds of the mills which provided its funding and had agrowingsurpluson account.
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