surplusing
- 1Present participle and gerund of surplus.
The agency began surplusing outdated equipment after the budget review.
Surplusing the obsolete inventory let the company recover valuable warehouse space.
Note
A transitive -ing form: something or someone is always being surplused, whether equipment, stock or staff, since the verb covers both selling things off and dismissing people from employment. As a gerund it names the act itself (surplusing the old fleet). In progressive tenses it describes a disposal under way. The spelling keeps a single s before -ing, and the same base, surplus, also serves as noun and adjective.
surplusing is a form of surplus
surplus, verb: To treat people or things as surplus to requirements, as by selling off property or dismissing employees from their jobs. Full entry
- Spelling
- surplus → surplusing: add -ing
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