What's the difference between overstock and surplus?
Overstock
Definition:
(n.) Stock in excess.
(v. t.) To fill too full; to supply in excess; as, to overstock a market with goods, or a farm with cattle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its runways are now closed to the handful of private jets that brought wealthy hunting parties, some including British royals, to kill deer in the region's overstocked private estates.
(2) The slow growth rates, low mature weights and reduction in adult size is considered to be due to chronic overstocking on already denuded feed resources and to a decline in rainfall over the period.
(3) The firm is partnering with bitcoin payment platform Coinbase, one of the largest bitcoin companies, which already handles payments for clients including Overstock and Reddit .
(4) The underlying causes of overstocking of pastures and of desertification are in fact multiple and intertwined: population pressure, drought, changes in land ownership systems, social changes.
(5) The property market is depressed and overstocked, and confidence is fragile.
(6) Overstock was previously a member of Alec but let its membership lapse.
(7) Correlations between these methods were not consistent but indicated that, given the small number of data sets, all methods were sensitive enough to estimate larval availability on pasture with the exception of the tracer calf method in the overstocked 3.4-ha paddock.
(8) However, most retailers are now buying tighter, not wanting to repeat the overstock problems that left them having to slash prices last year.
(9) Nick Surgey, director of research at the nonprofit Center for Media and Democracy, said Overstock, unlike Google and many other Silicon Valley companies, had never espoused progressive values on climate change or other issues.
(10) The higher snout scores were associated with a group of recurrent husbandry factors, especially overstocking and unsatisfactory conditions in the weaner accommodation.
(11) Findings show low levels of production and reproduction and high mortality rates in a situation of deteriorating natural resources due to mismanagement and overstocking.
(12) Richards said it had been tricky dealing with the overstocks but he was “financially pleased” with his growing season.
(13) Due to a history of overstocking, the health authority had chosen, as a cost saving measure, to reduce the stock of condoms in each clinic.
(14) Price cuts from supermarkets and early Christmas discounting by overstocked high street retailers helped.
(15) Overstock confirmed it had rejoined Alec to lobby on internet sales taxation issues.
(16) These promotional copies were immediately sold secondhand to record stores and it was not uncommon for such stores to be overstocked with a new release prior to its official release as a result.
(17) Though construction has since tapered off, developers left a mall overstock in their wake.
(18) Patrick Byrne, Overstock’s chief operating officer, is chairman of the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, a free market lobby group set up by the late Nobel economist Milton Friedman that champions vouchers for education, a cause also supported by Alec.
Surplus
Definition:
(n.) That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus.
(n.) Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.
(a.) Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient; as, surplus revenues; surplus population; surplus words.
Example Sentences:
(1) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
(2) They also said no surplus that built up in the scheme, which runs at a £700m deficit, would be paid to any “sponsor or employer” under any circumstances.
(3) Quoting the BBC-commissioned survey of more than 2,000 adults, Lyons said they had been given six choices what to do with the licence fee surplus once digital switchover was complete.
(4) The Tories plan to start running a surplus from 2018.
(5) Any surplus food left over goes to anaerobic digestion energy plants, which turn food waste into electricity.
(6) He still insists that the nation will return to surplus by 2020 – a make-or-break target that will define the success or failure of his fiscal mission.
(7) He shares any dificit or surplus remaining at the end of the year.
(8) These surplus chromophores become esterified and are temporarily taken up by the pigment epithelium to be re-entered into the visual cycle as fast as they can be processed by the regenerative machinery of the rod outer segments.
(9) In the midst of this catastrophe, the troika is insisting on further austerity to achieve massive primary budget surpluses of 3% in 2015, 4.5% in 2016 and even more in future years.
(10) George Osborne’s hopes of securing a budget surplus by the time of the next general election rest on continuing high levels of net migration to Britain, the Office for Budget Responsibility has made clear.
(11) Industry surplus is hard to avoid, but what Community Shop shows is that if we all work together we can make sure that surplus food delivers lasting social good."
(12) However, he became surplus to requirements under Steve Bruce and followed Paulo da Silva and David Healy out of the Stadium of Light.
(13) Transfection with B beta cDNA not only increased the synthesis of B beta chain but also increased the rate of synthesis of the other two component chains of fibrinogen and maintained surplus intracellular pools of A alpha and gamma chains.
(14) The possibility that Osborne could adopt a flexible approach surfaced when John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, asked him whether he would adopt a “less excessive surplus target”.
(15) Off came defensive midfielder Claudio Yacob, rendered surplus to requirements by the dismissals of Afellay and Adam, and on went forward Rickie Lambert.
(16) "The forces of capitalism are squeezing out anything that doesn't focus on extracting as much surplus value as it can from people and the planet.
(17) The persona that emerged during day two of Breivik's 10-week trial was a rambling, repetitive obsessive, fixated on a threat he never truly managed to articulate, but which involved "cultural Marxists", whom he claimed had destroyed Norway by using it as "a dumping ground for the surplus births of the third world".
(18) Even in zoos voted the best in Europe, the Captive Animals’ Protection Society has pointed out, there can be enough evidence of animals behaving abnormally, or a casual approach to culling any surplus, to avoid them or, ideally, close them down.
(19) Then you happen on a large notice board festooned with flyers and cards, many offering help, companionship and solidarity to those who have been deemed surplus to the requirements of consumerism.
(20) In the medium term, Athens will have to aim at a 3.5% primary surplus.