budget surplus
noun
: more money than is needed to pay for planned expenses
The state currently has a $3 million budget surplus.
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Louisville Metro Council members have since proposed allocating more than $5 million from the city's $17 million budget surplus toward funding birthing centers at Mary & Elizabeth Hospital.
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Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Dec. 2025
Last year, Texas’s budget surplus was higher than the entire outlays of many states.
—Scott Feuless, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
These ultra-austerity policies helped Argentina to post a budget surplus in 2024 for the first time in fourteen years.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Investors fear Milei will fail to secure enough congressional seats in October’s legislative election to deliver on his anti-austerity agenda, which has sparked economic growth and led to the first budget surplus in decades, though spending cuts have angered many.
—semafor.com, 29 Sep. 2025
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Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Dec. 2025
Last year, Texas’s budget surplus was higher than the entire outlays of many states.
—Scott Feuless, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
These ultra-austerity policies helped Argentina to post a budget surplus in 2024 for the first time in fourteen years.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Investors fear Milei will fail to secure enough congressional seats in October’s legislative election to deliver on his anti-austerity agenda, which has sparked economic growth and led to the first budget surplus in decades, though spending cuts have angered many.
—semafor.com, 29 Sep. 2025
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“Budget surplus.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/budget%20surplus. Accessed 21 Dec. 2025.
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