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carry-over
[kar-ee-oh-ver]
noun
that which is carried over, postponed, or extended to a later time, account, etc.
Bookkeeping.the total of one page of an account carried forward to the next.
carry over
verb
to postpone or defer
accounting tax accounting another term for carry forward
(on the London Stock Exchange) to postpone (payment or settlement) until the next account day
noun
something left over for future use, esp goods to be sold
accounting a sum or balance carried forward
another name for contango
tax accounting another name for carry-forward See carry forward
Word History and Origins
Origin of carry-over1
Idioms and Phrases
See carry forward , def. 1.
To keep something, usually merchandise, for a subsequent period. For example, We'll carry over this summer's bathing suits for next winter's resort season .
Persist from one time or situation to another, as in His leadership in sports carried over to the classroom . [Late 1800s]
Example Sentences
But after she introduced her proposal — attached as an amendment to a technical bill authorizing departments to spend carry-over dollars from the year before — Rivera and the council ran into a tsunami of anger.
you’re seeing at the start of the season is a carry-over from how they finished the season.”
“Even though we have new plays and new wrinkles this year, there’s still carry-over,” Sheridan said.
Logically, this carry-over makes no sense; but it happened anyway.
Wells wants to know the extent of this ‘carry-over’ in the UK cases and whether or not very low levels of mutation-bearing mitochondria cause health problems.
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