Overhead

/ˈəʊvəˌhɛd/ · adjective

Meaning

Located above, especially over the head..

Definitions by Sense

1. Located above, especially over the head.
2. (soccer) Kicked over one's own head.
3. (uncountable, business, accounting) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
4. (countable, business, accounting) The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
5. (uncountable) 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.
6. (uncountable, business) Wasted money.
7. (tennis) A smash.
8. (nautical) The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel.

Example Sentences

Place your luggage in the overhead lockers.

The railway consists of some 18 miles of double track electrified on the overhead principle.

In a city where media companies and hospitals have armed guards, this accessibility is unusual. Inside, drivers sit and chat in between shifts, the overhead fan whirring and causing the dim electric light to flicker over their faces.

It was Rooney, however, who produced a moment of inspiration to score a stunning overhead kick that will live forever in the memory of United's fans and extended City's dismal sequence of only one league win in their last 27 visits to Old Trafford.

There was no room left in the overheads for our luggage, our seats did not recline, and the washrooms were right behind us.

Network overhead is the header data that is required to route and transport data over the network, whereas fork overhead is the additional time and memory cost of creating and managing new processes within the operating system.

birds flying overhead

Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.

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Word Forms

• more overhead
• most overhead
• overheads

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