overhead

UK /ˈəʊvəˌhɛd/ US /ˈəʊvəˌhɛd/
noun 7adj 2adv 2prep 1

Definitions

adj

1

Located above, especially over the head.

Place your luggage in the overhead lockers.

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

2

Kicked over one's own head.

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.

noun

1

The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.

2

The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.

3

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.

4

Wasted money.

5

A smash.

adv

1

Above one's head; in the sky.

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.

2

Per head; for each individual.

[…] the influence of the minister's week-day attentions, first in creating, and afterwards in keeping up among the people of his parish their habit of Sabbath attendance. So indispensable in towns is the connexion between these two things, that were seat-rents let down at this moment to two shillings overhead, or even annihilated, so as to throw open the whole of the church room at accessible prices to the lowest of the people, we shall greatly mistake the result if we look for a great and visible increase of attendance per saltum on the part of the parish families.

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