Overhead

Quick meaning: Overhead is an adjective meaning Located above, especially over the head.

Meaning

Located above, especially over the head.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

birds flying overhead

Place your luggage in the overhead lockers.

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

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

Word Forms

• overheads

Synonyms for overhead

Depending on context, synonyms include elevated, smash, aerial, viewgraph.

Antonyms for overhead

Common opposites include subsurface, surface.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include elevated, smash, aerial, viewgraph, above, aloft.

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