noun

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An instance of overrunning

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The amount by which something overruns

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At least this year's overrun isn't as unmanageable as last year!

definition

Air that is whipped into a frozen dessert to make it easier to serve and eat.

verb

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To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively.

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To infest, swarm over, flow over.

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The vine overran its trellis; the field is overrun with weeds.

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To run past; to run beyond.

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One line overruns another in length.

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To continue for too long.

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The performance overran by ten minutes, which caused some people to miss their bus home.

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To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page.

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To go beyond; to extend in part beyond.

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In machinery, a sliding piece is said to overrun its bearing when its forward end goes beyond it.

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To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.

Examples of overruns in a Sentence

In the first case designing writing tools to help authors avoid overruns.

The movement towards contraction and consequent rise of temperature which radiation sets up, like other motions, overruns the equilibriumpoint, only however by a minute amount; the accumulated excesses from all past time now stored in the sun would maintain its radiations at their present rate for nX3000 years, that is, for a few thousand years only.

He overruns extorted tribute, and double and treble tribute Mahoinme-from the princes of Andalusia.

Firstly the history of high-tech government schemes is one of massive cost overruns coupled with equally massive logistical and technical failures.

Unfortunately, failing public sector IT projects are no longer the exception and huge cost overruns can be confidently predicted.

This isn't really any different from the problems we saw with buffer overruns in the from line permitting execution of arbitrary code.

In contrast, cost overruns under PFI are on average 170 per cent from outline to full business case.

It is the tenant who has to pay for budget overruns.

Production overruns can happen for a number of reasons, but the main reason is a large cancelled order or large returned order.

Another excellent source for past season items like these are offprice stores like Marshalls, Hamrick's and T.J. Maxx, which buy factory overruns and inventory closeouts.

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