exceed

IPA: ɪksˈid

verb

  • (transitive) To be larger, greater than (something).
  • (transitive) To be better than (something).
  • (transitive) To go beyond (some limit); to surpass; to be longer than.
  • (intransitive) To predominate.
  • (intransitive, obsolete) To go too far; to be excessive.
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Examples of "exceed" in Sentences

  • Some of the blog posts at Talking Points Memo talk about how the combined finances of the RNC and McCain exceed $90 million.
  • Rationally, on a large scale, housing-cost growth cannot over the long term exceed the average income growth of the community.
  • I do appreciate how the media is phrasing this as "Did Sarah Palin exceed expectations" and not "Did Sarah Palin attract any undecided voters".
  • It's just that when it the transaction costs of negotiating other terms exceed the expected benefit of either party in attempting to do so, they do not.
  • '(2) MINIMUM AMOUNT - For any fiscal year for which amounts appropriated for this subtitle exceed $50,000,000, the minimum allotment to each State under paragraph (1) shall be $75,000.
  • Everyone who reaches retirement age is given benefit privileges that far exceed anything he has paid in -- exceed his payments by more than ten times (or five times counting employer payments)!
  • If then syllogisms are taken with respect to their main premisses, every syllogism will consist of an even number of premisses and an odd number of terms (for the terms exceed the premisses by one), and the conclusions will be half the number of the premisses.
  • But should they exceed the contract price then the 11 per cent. was to be proportionately decreased by an arranged sliding scale, provided, however, that Van Hattum and Co. did not _exceed the specification by more than 100 per cent. _, in which latter case the

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