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overhead
/ˈoʊvɚˈhɛd/
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What does overhead mean?
adjective
- Located above, especially over the head.
- Kicked over one's own head.
noun
- The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
More meanings (15)
noun
- The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
- Any cost or expenditure (monetary, time, effort or otherwise) incurred in a project or activity, which does not directly contribute to its progress or outcome.
- Wasted money.
- A smash.
- The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel.
- A compartment above the seats for stowing luggage in a passenger aircraft.
- The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.
- Data or steps of computation used only to facilitate the computations in the system and not directly related to the actual program code or data being processed.
- An overhead throw.
- A type of bridge, also commonly known as an overpass or flyover, which carries one form of traffic over another.
- An overhead projector.
- A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency.
adverb
- Above one's head; in the sky.
- (archaic) Per head; for each individual.
preposition
- Above.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈoʊvɚˈhɛd/
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
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Then just overhead came a sound like an iron bedstead being knocked about, and the low angry growling of some large animal.
Squirrels were chattering, birds singing, and overhead honked the wild-fowl driving up from the south in cunning wedges that split the air.
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I rode on, hour after hour, in the darkness and solitude, the prairie all round and a firmament of frosty stars overhead.
The overhead arrangement of valves was adopted, and in later designs push-rods were eliminated, the overhead cam-shaft being adopted in their place.
She is the equal of Mary Browne in this department, while her overhead is the best of any woman in the game.