Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
SURPLUSAGE
excess, surplus, surplusage, nimiety
(noun) a quantity much larger than is needed
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
surplusage (countable and uncountable, plural surplusages)
(now rare) A surplus; a superabundance.
(legal) Matter in pleading which is not necessary or relevant to the case, and may be rejected.
(finance) A greater disbursement than the charge of the accountant amounts to.
Source: Wiktionary
Sur"plus*age, n. Etym: [See Surplus, and cf. Superplusage.]
1. Surplus; excess; overplus; as, surplusage of grain or goods beyond what is wanted. Take what thou please of all this surplusage. Spenser. A surplusage given to one part is paid out of a reduction from another part of the same creature. Emerson.
2. (Law)
Definition: Matter in pleading which is not necessary or relevant to the case, and which may be rejected.
3. (Accounts)
Definition: A greater disbursement than the charge of the accountant amounts to. [Obs.] Rees.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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