"tick over" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ticks over",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ticking over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ticked over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ticked over",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "tick over (third-person singular simple present ticks over, present participle ticking over, simple past and past participle ticked over)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to idle (to run at a slow speed, or out of gear)."
      ],
      "id": "en-tick_over-en-verb-Wbvuwy4A",
      "links": [
        [
          "idle",
          "idle"
        ],
        [
          "gear",
          "gear"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, of an engine) to idle (to run at a slow speed, or out of gear)."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of an engine"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "While the boss was on holiday, the deputy made sure things were ticking over in the firm."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, The Maccabees, Pelican",
          "text": "So soon we're too old to carry\nWe knew we only had a little while\nIn the middle keep ticking over\nBefore you know it, parent a parent",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To run smoothly and without problems."
      ],
      "id": "en-tick_over-en-verb-bT~pmYQf",
      "links": [
        [
          "smoothly",
          "smoothly"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "of",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, of, e.g. a process or a business) To run smoothly and without problems."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tick over"
}

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    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ticks over",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ticking over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ticked over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ticked over",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to idle (to run at a slow speed, or out of gear)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "idle",
          "idle"
        ],
        [
          "gear",
          "gear"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, of an engine) to idle (to run at a slow speed, or out of gear)."
      ],
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        "of an engine"
      ],
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        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "While the boss was on holiday, the deputy made sure things were ticking over in the firm."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, The Maccabees, Pelican",
          "text": "So soon we're too old to carry\nWe knew we only had a little while\nIn the middle keep ticking over\nBefore you know it, parent a parent",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To run smoothly and without problems."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "smoothly",
          "smoothly"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "of",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, of, e.g. a process or a business) To run smoothly and without problems."
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "tick over"
}