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superávit

surplus

noun soo-peh-RAH-beet Rare

Origin: From Latin superavit (it exceeded), third-person perfect of superare.

Usage Note

Superávit is a loanword from Latin used in economics and public finance to denote a budget surplus — the opposite of déficit. It is one of the few nouns ending in a consonant that forms its plural in -s without an accent shift: superávits is acceptable, though many speakers treat it as invariable in plural.

Examples

"El país cerró el año con un superávit histórico."

Natural Translation

The country ended the year with a historic surplus.

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