overrun
IPA: ˈoʊvɝrʌn
noun
- An instance of overrunning.
- The amount by which something overruns.
- (aviation) An area of terrain beyond the end of a runway that is kept flat and unobstructed to allow an aircraft that runs off the end of the runway to stop safely.
- (food) Air that is whipped into a frozen dessert to make it easier to serve and eat.
verb
- (transitive) To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively.
- (transitive) To infest, swarm over, flow over.
- (transitive) To run past; to run beyond.
- (transitive) To run past the end of.
- (intransitive) To continue for too long.
- (printing) To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page.
- (transitive) To go beyond; to extend in part beyond.
- (transitive) To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
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Examples of "overrun" in Sentences
- Consider that the highway project AVERAGE overrun is 25%.
- After successfully completing the first mission, our hero is now sent to an abandoned military camp, again overrun with Zombies.
- Get pratical, In any industry the more unknowns in a project estimate the greater the cost overrun is going to be and the higher the risk.
- Now the cost overrun is becoming the central issue, the social justice folks are becoming more interested in the tunnel issue than ever before.
- The increase is called overrun, and in a fluffy ice cream can be as much as 100%: that is, the final ice cream volume is half mix and half air.
- According to the most influential social justice advocates in Seattle, the cost overrun is a major threat to the values and the interest of the social justice causes.
- To submit that cost overrun is the main reason to cancel the deep-bore tunnel is to save face by concealling the more pertinent concerns about engineering and integrity.
- We also need to emphasize as tax payers that the city council must get written guarantee from the state, if the cost overrun is resolved, the state will not abandon the project until it is completed.
- And if the overrun is 30% or more, starting 18 months after the Administrator's report to Congress, _no_ funds can be expended on the project unless Congress specifically authorizes them --- except costs for termination.
- A cost overrun is inestimable because it must include the costly health impacts of redirecting 20,000+ vehicles from 'commercial' Lower Belltown through 'residential' Lower Queen Anne, and another 20,000+ vehicles along an idiotically reconfigured Alaskan Way that couldn't handle half that amount of traffic.
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