so-called surplus

collocation in English

meaningsofso-calledandsurplus

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so-called
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˌsəʊˈkɔːld/us
/ˌsoʊˈkɑːld/
used to show that you think a word that is used to describe someone or something is not suitable or ...
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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 ofso-calledandsurplusfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There was a time when there were some two million more women than men in this country, theso-calledsurpluswomen.
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Equally, it depends upon theso-calledsurplusproving to be the case and not a myth.
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It might be a playing field, and we know what happens toso-calledsurplusplaying fields.
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When one looks at the question of the disposal of theso-calledsurplusmilk, the arguments that are put up strike one as slightly fantastic.
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When we get into a war we take ourso-calledsurpluswealth and blow it to smithereens.
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The cuts in themselves will not save much; the prospect of selling off the 114so-calledsurplusproperties must have been too tempting to resist.
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In a world with a vast unsatisfied need for steel thatso-calledsurplusshould be purely notional.
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When it is analysed we find it includes these two purely adventitious items, which account for almost the whole of theso-calledsurplus.
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The second myth is theso-calledsurplus, which we are told will be £400 million in the first year, building up to about £3,400 million by 1988.
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I maintain that thisso-calledsurplusof teachers is not a surplus at all.
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The other point isso-calledsurplusrailway land.
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It is clear that at least some of theso-calledsurplusof whale food has been taken by the competitors in the system.
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Could not that excellent idea be extended so that all theseso-calledsurpluspictures—of course, they are not really surplus—could be seen by students and others in easily accessible places?
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My understanding is that it is proposed that all the embryonic material that we are discussing should come from theso-calledsurplusembryos created during the in vitro fertilisation process.
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Ravenscraig has reduced production costs, increased productivity and shedso-calledsurpluslabour and, rightly or wrongly, it continued to work during the miners' strike.
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More and more of thatso-calledsurplusgrain of which we are already reading continuer, therefore, to be demanded for the feeding of their own livestock.
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