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overlength

overlength adjective: longer than is standard or (transport, law, of a vehicle) longer than is allowed.

Adjective

overlength

  1. Longer than is standard or (transport, law, of a vehicle) longer than is allowed.

Noun

overlength (uncountable)

  1. An excess of length.
    • […] and shall pay not only the amount of the permit fee for overlength, overheight, overwidth or overweight as might be due, but an additional civil penalty of fifty dollars for the first offense, one hundred dollars for the second offense and one hundred fifty dollars for each additional offense...1976, Acts of the Legislature, volume 1, Louisiana, page 445

Origin of overlength

From over + length.

Questions about overlength

What does overlength mean?
Overlength means longer than is standard or (transport, law, of a vehicle) longer than is allowed.
What part of speech is overlength?
Overlength can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near overlength in the dictionary

  1. overleisured
  2. overleisurely
  3. overlend
  4. overlending
  5. overlends
  6. overlength
  7. overlengthen
  8. overlengthened
  9. overlengthening
  10. overlengthens
  11. overleniency

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