food surplus

collocation in English

meaningsoffoodandsurplus

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food
noun[C or U]
uk
/fuːd/us
/fuːd/
something that people and animals eat, or plants absorb, to keep ...
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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 offoodandsurplusfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffood surplus

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Irrespective of variety, farmers with afoodsurplushad higher adoption rates than those with a food balance.
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This, of course, not only results in afoodsurpluswhich is sometimes embarrassing but will result in a greatly increased subsidy bill.
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I have mentioned the way in which we are drenching our countryside in chemicals and draining the wetlands to add to thefoodsurplus.
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There is no such thing as a worldfoodsurplus.
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There is no such thing as afoodsurplusin a world in which some people are starving.
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There is in the world at this moment one notable instance of a realfoodsurplus.
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Reducing food prices might reduce thefoodsurplus, but it would destabilise their democratic societies.
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As a result, there may well be afoodsurplusin one part and a major food shortage a relatively short distance away.
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I do not think it helpful to suggest that we rest on the assurance that there will always be afoodsurplus.
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The ever-growingfoodsurplusis adding approximately $13 a week to every household food bill.
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Is this afoodsurplus?
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Convoys had saved us from defeat in the war and there was no post-warfoodsurplus.
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They constituted a greatfoodsurplusbody.
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They had little need for foraging and grew to an advanced civilization due tofoodsurplus.
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Potatoes provided a reliablefoodsurplus, which enabled longer and more sustained military campaigns.
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Repeated experimental exposure of birds to afoodsurplussignificantly increases the rate at which they impale freshly caught prey.
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