英和和英

語源

From overplus +‎ -age.

名詞

overplusage (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 overplusages)

1. Overplus; excess.
   • 1868, Walks in the Black Country and its Green Border-Land (Chapter 7, page 107)

     Soho became an attracting and eradiating centre of scientific mechanism and artistic taste and skill, which not only supplied the manufacturing industries of Birmingham with their remarkable and diversified faculties, but diffused the overplusage throughout the kingdom and the world.

   • 1896, The Esoteric (volume 9, page 156)

     Under certain conditions, an overplusage of feminine elements in a masculine portion of mind will produce a poet.

   • 1953, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, Military and Naval Construcition Authorization. Hearings (page 236)

     I do not remember your reporting any that cost more than the sum set forth. Do you attempt to report those? You report the savings; do you report the overplusage?