budget surplus
noun[C]
ECONOMICS,FINANCEukustheamountofextramoneyavailableto agovernmentbecause it hasspentlessmoneythan itearned:
Thegovernmenthasprojectedabudgetsurplusof £7billionbyApril.
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budget deficit
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Having a largebudgetsurplus, they began investing in the settlement's infrastructure.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The 10 millionbudgetsurpluswas more than offset by 75 million planned for special projects.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Increase in revenues, coupled with the spending reductions, led to a $300 millionbudgetsurplus.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Teachers pointed out the city's thenbudgetsurplusand the number of teachers leaving the city.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A positive balance is called a "governmentbudgetsurplus", and a negative balance is a "government budget deficit".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Corporate taxation was designed so that the taxable profit should correspond to the actualbudgetsurplus.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The administration closed the budget gap, and ended fiscal year 2004 with abudgetsurplusof $700 million.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The influx of private patients resulted in abudgetsurplus, and enabled expansion and improvements of the asylum's facilities.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thus, neither a budget deficit nor abudgetsurplusexists (the accounts "balance").
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The resulting largebudgetsurplusallowed him to propose several construction projects.
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