Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Something transferred or extended from an earlier time or another place: a showing of new fashions as well as carryovers from last spring; a carryover of good will from the previous meeting.
- n. Accounting A sum transferred to a new column, page, or book relating to the same account.
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Examples
“I think it was still a lot of carryover from the game but I think they're excited about the future and excited about the team.”
“In fact one of the early comments out of the White House was that the "no fly" screening process was a carryover from the Bush administration.”
“In general the books represent a carryover from the hieroglyphic codices in which the Maya recorded historical events and matters of religion, art, astronomy and the like.”
“Both managers said beforehand that they didn't anticipate any carryover from the melee that ensued after Shields hit Coco Crisp in the leg with a pitch during the second inning of a 7-1 Tampa Bay loss.”
“These composed salads are a carryover from the upper class European-influenced households in Mexico both before and during the Porfiriato, when they were considered de rigeur for women.”
“I just felt sluggish, but maybe that was a carryover from the tough game last night.”
“Perhaps it’s a carryover from the Inquisition when people were burned alive at the stake by the church for daring to question the church.”
“But when heirs sell those assets, they have to use the original price paid for the assets known as "carryover basis" to compute the capital gains taxes owed.”
“The county, with $59.2 million in unspent funds known as carryover, also elected to use about $10 million to continue overhauling a computer system that tracks budgeting, purchasing, pay and personnel in its agencies.”
The Washington Post: Fairfax to put extra money in budget into county workers' health plans
“Similarly, the supervisors also agreed to commit approximately $674,000 to hire seven full-time county planners, thereby freeing up staffers whose time has been taken up with the massive redevelopment of Tysons Corner -- but not before gently lecturing County Executive Anthony H. Griffin about their reluctance to use so-called carryover funds to hire new people.”
The Washington Post: Fairfax to put extra money in budget into county workers' health plans
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘carryover’.
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BUDG - general terms
Budgetese - not a sexy topic but a very comprehensive list of words and collocations used in EU circles. Budgeting experts please comment and expand.
heading, across-the-board ..., emergency reserve, frontload, mopping-up, performance reserve, positive margin, negative margin, public finances, structural operat..., administrative ex..., management of EU ... and 657 more...
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
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3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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CONT - general terms
additionality, audit trail, accounting standards, auditing standards, general audit obj..., a posteriori audit, a priori audit, above board, acceptable error ..., access rights, accountability, accountable entities and 1283 more...
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WF - nominal compounds (figurative)
An extensive list I have been working on for quite some time. Feel free to add more of the kind if you miss any.
brainstorming, upside, downside, goldplating, bikeshedding, mudslinging, downgrading, headhunter, streamlining, mainstreaming, gerrymandering, frontloading and 503 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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Its Over - A New Beginning
allover, sign over, lord it over, move over, leftover, keel over, look over, hunch over, hold over, make over, ice over, four-leaf clover and 75 more...
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