| 单词 | excess profits |
| 释义 | > as lemmasexcess profits b. The amount by which one number or quantity exceeds another. spherical excess: (see quot. 1840). excess fare (on railways): a payment made by a person travelling beyond the place, or in a higher class than that, specified on his ticket. excess luggage: luggage over the weight for which a passenger is allowed free carriage. excess profits (see quot. 19152); also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > condition of being more than another > amount by which one quantity is greater excess1557 the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [noun] > excess, redundancy, or superfluity > a surplus or excess surplusc1374 overplusa1387 surplusagec1407 superplusage1436 superplusa1450 surcroitre1496 superfluous1552 excess1557 over-increase1579 over-sum1587 overflow1589 surcrease1600 surcroist1601 over-crease1625 exceeding1719 excedent1811 surcruec1825 overage1886 overspill1892 1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Miv Compare those excesses and wantes well together. 1660 tr. I. Barrow Euclide's Elements i. 8 If to equall things you adde things unequall, the excesse of the wholes shall be equall to the excesse of the additions. 1812 R. Woodhouse Elem. Treat. Astron. xviii. 201 The accumulation of the daily excesses. 1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics iv. 36 Divide the index of refraction by its excess above unity. 1840 Snowball Spherical Trigonom. (ed. 5) §63 34 The quantity..by which the sum of the degrees in the angles of the spherical triangles exceeds 180°, is called the Spherical Excess of the triangle. 1882 Standard 2 Sept. 6/4 He received a book for the purpose of giving receipts to passengers for ‘excess’ fares. 1911 A. Bennett Card xi. 261 How much did you pay for the excess luggage? 1915 W. Owen Let. 1 Aug. (1967) 350 The said friend, having no baggage, will lighten my excess-luggage-charge. 1915 Act 5 & 6 Geo. V c. 89 §38 Excess Profits Duty... There shall be charged, levied, and paid on the amount by which the profits arising from any trade or business to which this Part of this Act applies, in any accounting period which ended after the fourth day of August nineteen hundred and fourteen, and before the first day of July nineteen hundred and fifteen, exceeded, by more than two hundred pounds, the pre-war standard of profits as defined for the purposes of this Part of this Act, a duty (in this Act referred to as ‘excess profits duty’) of an amount equal to fifty per cent. of that excess. 1915 Chemist & Druggist 87 521/1 As regards the excess profits tax, the special appeal tribunal will be competent [etc.]. 1940 G. Crowther Paying for War 22 It is very right and proper that there should be an Excess Profits Tax and that it should have been imposed in the first month of the war. 1955 Times 2 May 20/1 At least we were freed from the ill-conceived Excess Profits Levy. < as lemmas |
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