surplus to requirements
idiom
British, formal
: no longer needed
His services had become surplus to requirements.
Examples of surplus to requirements in a Sentence
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For other users, the market functionality is largely surplus to requirements.
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Will Henshall, TIME, 14 Feb. 2024
Their players are, of course, among the best in the world, prodigiously gifted, high-specification athletes, but they can be broadly sorted into two categories: those already deemed surplus to requirements by the new elite, and those who dream one day of making it there.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 10 May 2023
With Barca swimming in debts last summer and struggling to raise funds to make new signings, this made De Jong surplus to requirements and available for prospective buyers as the club's only realistically sellable and high-value asset.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
Their players are, of course, among the best in the world, prodigiously gifted, high-specification athletes, but they can be broadly sorted into two categories: those already deemed surplus to requirements by the new elite, and those who dream one day of making it there.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 10 May 2023
Once Ronaldo joined two years later, Higuain was surplus to requirements.
—Emmet Gates, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
With Barca swimming in debts last summer and struggling to raise funds to make new signings, this made De Jong surplus to requirements and available for prospective buyers as the club's only realistically sellable and high-value asset.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
However, the Jaguars signed linebacker Joe Schobert this off-season, so Hicks would be surplus to requirements.
—Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 10 Aug. 2021
That is the obvious inference from the upheaval in retailing that is leaving shopping malls and high streets, and millions of low-income jobs, surplus to requirements, yet panders to the consumer’s craving for convenience.
—The Economist, 13 Mar. 2021
Will Henshall, TIME, 14 Feb. 2024
Their players are, of course, among the best in the world, prodigiously gifted, high-specification athletes, but they can be broadly sorted into two categories: those already deemed surplus to requirements by the new elite, and those who dream one day of making it there.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 10 May 2023
With Barca swimming in debts last summer and struggling to raise funds to make new signings, this made De Jong surplus to requirements and available for prospective buyers as the club's only realistically sellable and high-value asset.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
Their players are, of course, among the best in the world, prodigiously gifted, high-specification athletes, but they can be broadly sorted into two categories: those already deemed surplus to requirements by the new elite, and those who dream one day of making it there.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 10 May 2023
Once Ronaldo joined two years later, Higuain was surplus to requirements.
—Emmet Gates, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
With Barca swimming in debts last summer and struggling to raise funds to make new signings, this made De Jong surplus to requirements and available for prospective buyers as the club's only realistically sellable and high-value asset.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
However, the Jaguars signed linebacker Joe Schobert this off-season, so Hicks would be surplus to requirements.
—Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 10 Aug. 2021
That is the obvious inference from the upheaval in retailing that is leaving shopping malls and high streets, and millions of low-income jobs, surplus to requirements, yet panders to the consumer’s craving for convenience.
—The Economist, 13 Mar. 2021
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