0 an amount that is more than acceptable, expected, or reasonable: --
As for shoes, her excesses (= the large number she owned) were well known.
For many years people were trying to escape the excesses (= cruel actions) of the junta.
There will be an increase in tax for those earning in excess of (= more than) twice the national average wage.
They both eat to excess (= too much).
An excess of enthusiasm is not always a good thing.
1 a part of the cost of an accident, injury, etc. that you agree to pay yourself when you buy insurance: --
2 extra: --
3 an amount that is more than acceptable, expected, or reasonable: --
4 more than is necessary; too much: --
excess baggage
5 an amount that is more than is needed, expected, or acceptable: --
excess of sth There is still, in many industries, an excess of productive capacity.
Any excess over these expenses represents profit attributable to shareholders.
If you retire having saved more than £1.4m you will face a one-off 33% tax charge on the excess.
This is a drawback when the number of atomic data is huge, as happens in dense plasmas, because the computer time increases in excess.
These are the excess volatility or learning equilibria of our model.
In this regard, there are echoes of the central problem addressed here concerning an excess of poorly defined terms that are ill-constrained in their usage.
There were serious efforts in the late eleventh century to cleanse the hymn repertory of certain excesses.
Thus, the elimination of volatility may lead to welfare gains and simultaneous effects on mean and excess returns.
By shedding excess and approaching sung dialogue as if it were speech, singers were to be singing actors - the imperative of a musical dramatic art.
Using this measure, the depletion (accumulation) of natural capital stocks in excess of economically efficient rates may increase income.
However, not all age groups demonstrated a female excess.
