net surplus

collocation in English

meaningsofnetandsurplus

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net
adjective[before or after noun]
uk
/net/us
/net/
left when there is nothing else to be ...
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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 ofnetandsurplusfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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They exercise political and military power over peripheries and enjoy anetsurplusin the flow of materials or labor vital to core interests.
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Instead, the government would return to the barter, which guarantees strictly positivenetsurplusfrom the direct exchange of commodities. 12.
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Hence, as approaches 1, it becomes more difficult to sustain a constrained monetary equilibrium where a seller'snetsurplusfrom trade is zero.
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By adding to this thenetsurplusin foreign assets held by the domestic sectors, one will obtain national wealth.
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The accounting-based approach estimates wealth accumulated from life-cycle concerns as the accumulatednetsurplusof earnings over consumption (and the rest is wealth for transfers).
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Primary care trusts do not have a target related to a cumulativenetsurplusor deficit.
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This net improvement reflects the fact that heads report anetsurplusof certificated teachers of mathematics.
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The agency's principal target for 1995–96 is to achieve anetsurplusof £3,000.
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There is anetsurplus, taking the associations all through, of some £41,000.
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Thenetsurpluson the travel account was £48 million in 1970 and £52 million in 1971.
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Instead of being related to capital, that £17,000 is the completenetsurplusafter paying the whole of the interest upon the capital.
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These other activities are expected to produce £10 millionnetsurplusafter paying their share of central charges, including interest.
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Thenetsurpluson overseas trade in 1993 was £571 million—similar to the net overseas earnings of the steel industry.
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The fact is in the past 16 years only once was our visible trade balance—the balance of physical exports and imports—innetsurplus.
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Thenetsurplusfor the industry was, therefore, £4,400,000, which is a modest figure on a total revenue of nearly £198 million.
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The surplus on working this year is estimated to be £770,000, debt charges and capital £752,000, anetsurplusof £18,000.
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In the four years from 1980 to 1983 there was anetsurplusof 118,000.
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How many of those businesses still exist, and what is thenetsurplus?
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We see that for the first 10 months of 1982 thenetsurplusearned on manufactures was nearly £2 billion: £1,925 million.
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The gross invisible income last year was £10 billion with anetsurplusof £3,100 million.
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