"carryover" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: carryovers [plural]
Etymology: Deverbal from carry over. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:deverbal|carry over|text=+|tree=1}} [Appendix:Glossary#deverbal|Deverbal]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "carry over", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword" : "deverbal" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "carryover", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="carryover"> Deverbal from carry over. Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} carryover (countable and uncountable, plural carryovers)
  1. Something whose duration has been extended or that has been transferred to another time. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  2. An amount, especially a sum of money, transferred to a new column in a ledger, or applied to a later time. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  3. The damaging condition where water droplets are carried out of a steam boiler along with the dry steam. Tags: countable, uncountable
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: hearing carryover

Inflected forms

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