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How to pronounce “overhead”
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Pronunciation guide for overhead
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of overhead with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The way we think about charity is dead wrong
which is, "What percentage of my donation goes to the cause versus overhead?"
- Definition summary
- Located above, especially over the head.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce overhead
The way we think about charity is dead wrong
which is, "What percentage of my donation goes to the cause versus overhead?"
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “overhead”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Located above, especially over the head.
- (soccer) Kicked over one's own head.
- [Noun]
- (uncountable, business, accounting) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
- (countable, business, accounting) The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
- (uncountable) Any cost or expenditure (monetary, time, effort or otherwise) incurred in a project or activity, which does not directly contribute to its progress or outcome.
- (uncountable, business) Wasted money.
- (tennis) A smash.
- (nautical) The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel.
- A compartment above the seats for stowing luggage in a passenger aircraft.
- (transport) The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.
- (computing) Data or steps of computation used only to facilitate the computations in the system and not directly related to the actual program code or data being processed.
- (juggling, by ellipsis) An overhead throw.
- (transport) A type of bridge, also commonly known as an overpass or flyover, which carries one form of traffic over another.
- [Adverb]
- Above one's head; in the sky.
- (archaic) Per head; for each individual.
- [Preposition]
- Above.
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