Excess money vs Excess amount of money

Both 'excess money' and 'excess amount of money' are correct, but they are used in slightly different contexts. 'Excess money' is more commonly used and refers to money that is more than what is needed or expected. 'Excess amount of money' is also correct but is less common and emphasizes the specific quantity of money that is in excess.

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Excess money

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase refers to money that is more than what is needed or expected.

Examples:

I have some excess money that I don't know what to do with.
The company had to deal with excess money after the successful project.
She always saves her excess money for a rainy day.
The budget had an unexpected surplus of excess money.
The fundraiser collected an excess amount of money for the charity.

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We consider namely that in the future, money, especially the excess money under heading 1, should be switched to the more proactive rural development policy.
Money and excess and wealth... luxury corrupts far more ruthlessly than war.
And I want you to find out exactly what Carol Grady did with the excess insurance money, all right?
With excess money from big exporters cheaply available on international financial markets, it makes sense for banks and other financial institutions to channel it to where it is most needed.
The financial crises in Asia were not caused by the textbook macroeconomic disequilibrium of the Mexican or South-American crises (budget deficits and/or excess money creation), but by financial excesses resulting from private sector over-investment.
Well, the report alleges the crew was selling excess building materials and pocketing the money.
Firstly, we disagree with emission trading which always protects those who have more money to buy emission rights and does not solve the problem of excess CO2 emissions.
This has cost EU taxpayers large amounts of money, and Parliament should, in this case, take a strong line to ensure that the excess rent is repaid.
They can save the money that they were going to spend on charcoal, and they can produce excess and sell it in the market to people who aren't making their own.
This factor is expected to continue to exert pressure leading to further reductions in excess banking capacity, especially in the retail sector, mainly through the development of both new distribution channels ("remote banking") and electronic money.
q A study by the Commission on the excess of 500 euro notes in circulation, which could trigger risks as far as money laundering and crime is concerned;
2. Rights against the Office for the refunding of fees or sums of money paid in excess of a fee shall be barred after four years from the end of the calendar year in which the right arose.
2. Rights against the Office for the refunding of fees or sums of money paid in excess of a fee shall be extinguished after four years from the end of the calendar year in which the right arose.
In that way, we can avoid waste, excess and fraud, and vigilant journalists and employees in companies and other institutions that receive subsidies will quickly be able to reveal if money is being misused, wasted or misappropriated.
Measures are also required to put an end to money-laundering activities, arms trafficking and gold trafficking, which results in more than 37 tonnes of gold being illegally removed from the Congo every year, with a value in excess of EUR 1 billion.
Rights against the Office for the refunding of fees or sums of money paid in excess of a fee shall be barred after four years from the end of the calendar year in which the right arose.
Rights against the Office for the refunding of fees or sums of money paid in excess of a fee shall be extinguished after four years from the end of the calendar year in which the right arose.
Creditor countries with huge trade surpluses (e.g. Germany, China, Japan, oil exporters) earn more money by exporting than they spend on imports, so excess funds are lent abroad through the conduit of international financial markets.
Parliament also asks the Commission to analyse the excess of €500 notes in circulation, warning of the risks associated with such a high value note with regard to money laundering and crime.
In the last three years, the number of money transfer counters has risen by 16000 (an increase in excess of the total number of Italian post offices, which is 14000).

Alternatives:

extra money
surplus money
leftover money
unused money
spare cash

Excess amount of money

This phrase is correct but less common in everyday usage.

This phrase emphasizes the specific quantity of money that is in excess.