carryover
carryover noun: something whose duration has been extended or that has been transferred to another time.
Noun
carryover (countable and uncountable, plural carryovers)
- Something whose duration has been extended or that has been transferred to another time.
- The “Black Shoe” title is a carryover from the days of coal-burning ships […]1992, Vic Campbell, Junction: Mild Adventure for the Armchair Ruralists
- An amount, especially a sum of money, transferred to a new column in a ledger, or applied to a later time.
- First, as a general rule, carryover stocks are, held in countries that have lower carrying costs, which are probably exporting countries because they enjoy lower prices.1980, Daniel T. Morrow, The Economics of the International Stockholding of Wheat
- The damaging condition where water droplets are carried out of a steam boiler along with the dry steam.
Forms of carryover
| plural | carryovers |
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Origin of carryover
Deverbal from carry over.
Words formed from carryover
- hearing carryover
Questions about carryover
- What does carryover mean?
- Carryover means something whose duration has been extended or that has been transferred to another time.
- What part of speech is carryover?
- Carryover is a noun.
- What is the plural of carryover?
- The plural of carryover is carryovers.
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