Excess is an English word with synonyms like unnecessary or spare. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Excess in a sentence
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Excess meaning
- The state of surpassing or going beyond a limit; the state of being beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; more than what is usual or proper.
- The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder.
- An act of eating or drinking more than enough.
Synonyms of Excess
Using Excess
- The main meaning on this page is: The state of surpassing or going beyond a limit; the state of being beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; more than what is usual or proper. | The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder. | An act of eating or drinking more than enough.
- Useful related words include: surplus, overabundance, overmuchness, overmuch.
- In the example corpus, excess often appears in combinations such as: excess of, in excess, the excess.
Example sentences (20)
There was excess liquidity in the system, and you saw asset prices reflect that excess liquidity.
Furthermore, once it is found that indeed the consumer has paid in excess of the maximum selling price, then the trader will be made to refund the consumer the excess amount and will be prosecuted under the relevant law.
Analysts at UBS estimated that the reinsurance industry is in an excess capital position of around $30 billion, but that an estimated $70 billion of natural catastrophe losses in 2019 could erode this excess capital.
People who have more bring their excess and those who have less appreciate the excess.
Slice your tomatoes about a quarter-inch thick, and remove excess seeds and juice (set this excess yumminess aside for adding to a pasta sauce).
Accordingly, the silver balustrade, which contained in excess of one ton of silver, cost in excess of 560,000 livres.
Endogenous causes of insulin excess (such as an insulinoma ) are very rare, and the overwhelming majority of insulin excess-induced hypoglycemia cases are iatrogenic and usually accidental.
Excess kurtosis The excess kurtosis is defined as kurtosis minus 3. There are 3 distinct regimes as described below.
Excess noise is also size-dependent: in general excess noise is reduced as the physical size of a resistor is increased (or multiple resistors are used in parallel), as the independently fluctuating resistances of smaller components tend to average out.
Financial services main An entity whose income exceeds its expenditure can lend or invest the excess income to help that excess income produce more income in the future.
Generally, when an excess line insurer writes a policy, it must, pursuant to state laws, provide disclosure to the policyholder that the policyholder's policy is being written by an excess line insurer.
It is present in excess and often, much greater excess of solubility of solid calcium phosphate.
The lack of empirical evidence to support or clearly refute the Tobin tax proponents' claim it will reduce "excess" volatility is due in part to a lack of an agreed definition of "excess" volatility that allows to be distinguished and formally measured.
The n-doped germanium would have an excess of electrons, and the p-doped germanium would have an excess of holes.
Thus, a country with an excess of bananas trading with another country for their excess of apples, where both benefit from the transaction, is in a non-zero-sum situation.
When there is an excess of taxes withheld over benefits paid, by law this excess is invested in Treasury securities (not in private equities) as described above.
Aberdeen are piling the pressure on Hearts in the race to finish third and land a potential European payday in excess of £3 million.
According to the Great Pond Foundation, harmful cyanobacteria blooms in ponds are the result of rapid growth in single cell algae and seaweed, which can be exacerbated by the introduction of excess nitrogen and phosphorus and increased heat.
According to the report, the average mortgage approval in October was €280,600, up 4.3% on the year, with approvals continuing to exceed drawdowns, pointing to “excess demand in the housing market”.
Accretion on NAV per share based on these same metrics is in excess of $0.30 per share.
Common combinations with excess
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- excess of 55×
- in excess 53×
- the excess 20×
- an excess 17×
- of excess 17×
- excess deaths 7×
- that excess 6×
- excess and 6×
- to excess 6×
- and excess 6×