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excess

[ik-ses, ek-ses, ek-ses, ik-ses] / ɪkˈsɛs, ˈɛk sɛs, ˈɛk sɛs, ɪkˈsɛs /




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The lender is looking to strike a balance between expanding its top and bottom lines while continuing to hand excess capital to shareholders at a time when interest rates have come down.

From The Wall Street Journal

Archer, however, recovered well to bowl effectively at the death as Sri Lanka pushed for a total in excess of 200.

From BBC

In many cases, nations that are heavily dependent on exports have had no choice but to “eat” the tariffs to avoid even worse losses from their excess capacity.

From The Wall Street Journal

However, medium-term margin pressure remains, with excess competition raising customer acquisition costs and offsetting gains from scaling up.

From The Wall Street Journal

This, together with plans to return excess capital to shareholders in 2027, should trigger a positive market reaction, the analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal