budget surplus

noun

: more money than is needed to pay for planned expenses

The state currently has a $3 million budget surplus.

Examples of budget surplus in a Sentence

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My former home state, Connecticut, announced another budget surplus, the 8th year in a row. — Elona Vaisnys, Hartford Courant, 9 Aug. 2026

And, while other states had balked at the fifty-million-dollar price tag that Hubbard deemed necessary for the clinical trials, Texas had ended the year with a twenty-four-billion-dollar budget surplus from oil and gas revenues. — Michelle Lhooq, New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2026

Total utility expenditures for June were held to $249,453, leaving a net monthly utility budget surplus of $31,484. — Randy Moll, Arkansas Online, 26 July 2026

Reductions in Saudi’s oil exports, because of the blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, follows years of lower oil prices and growing budget deficits in the kingdom—since 2013, Riyadh has reported one budget surplus when oil prices passed $100 a barrel in 2022. — Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 23 June 2026

Rhymes for budget surplus

• surplice