English-French translations for excess

• excès
  C'est la meilleure façon d'éviter les excès. This is the best way to avoid excesses.
  Elles sont adéquates sans toutefois encourager l'excès. They are adequate without encouraging any degree of excess.
  Objet: Excès de transport dans la mer Baltique Subject: Excess transport in the Baltic Sea
• abusivement
  On l’a dite abusivement politisée, excessivement active, et corrompue. It has been accused of being overly politicised and excessively active as well as of being corrupt.
• en trop
• excédent
  La résolution parle d'excédents excessifs. The resolution talks of 'excessive surpluses'.
  Nous devons nous montrer à la hauteur de nos responsabilités et réduire notre excédent de capacité. We have to live up to our responsibilities and cut down on our excess capacity.
  L'objectif premier de ce rapport n'est plus un déficit zéro, mais des excédents budgétaires. The primary objective of this report is no longer zero deficit but budgetary excess.
• excessif
  Je pense que cet aspect est excessif. I think that this is excessive.
  Il est excessif pour trois raisons. It is excessive for three reasons.
  Cela me semble quelque peu excessif! This seems a little excessive to me!
• franchise
  Mesdames et Messieurs, je ne suis pas de ceux qui mâchent leurs mots et je vous prie de pardonner ce qui constitue peut-être un excès de franchise. Ladies and gentlemen, I am not someone who minces words and I would ask you to forgive what is perhaps an excess of frankness.
• outrance
  Ce travail a été fait et je dois le dire, il a été fait sans outrance. The work has been done and, I have to say, it was done without excessive hype.
  Or, sous couvert d’attractivité, nous avons entamé une libéralisation à outrance et mal contrôlée. On the pretext of drawing power, we have initiated an excessive and poorly controlled liberalisation.
  En effet, elle a admis que les propositions étaient incontestablement détaillées à outrance et qu'il convenait de revoir la formulation. The Commission admitted that the proposals were probably excessively detailed and that the wording needed editing.
• profusion

Definition of excess

• The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or proper
• The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder
• An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation
• Spherical excess, the amount by which the sum of the three angles of a spherical triangle exceeds two right angles. The spherical excess is proportional to the area of the triangle
• More than is normal, necessary or specified
• To declare surplus to requirements, such that he or she might not be given work

Examples

• The excess of heavy water was given away to the neighbouring country
• The difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other.

Related words

• excessive
• excessiveness
• excessively
• excess baggage
• excess of loss
• excess mandate
• excess capacity
• excess hair
• excess burden