NOUN
- application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation
- the accumulated and undivided profits of a corporation after provision has been made for dividends and reserves
How To Use carry-over In A Sentence
- In certain appropriations, such as those for long-cycle procurement, considerable carry-over of unliquidated obligations into future years is to be expected and is necessary. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
- I don't think there's ever any carry-over from one game to the next.
- Yet the system as reformed, partly by the New Deal and partly by a carry-over of wartime measures, did perform wonderfully well in the two decades after World War II.
- Hence, carry-over or cross-contamination can occur in continuous flow analyzers if suitable precautions are not taken.
- The budget includes a ￡7 million carry-over from last year.
- ‘Only a carry-over of silage and hay from last winter helped to stop a feeding crisis on farms, but the problem is how are the animals to be fed this winter.
- In northern climates where rainwater is the sole water source, it may be necessary to oversize the cistern to provide carry-over during a significant portion of the winter when snow falls instead of rain.
- The lower slaughter means the carry-over into 2005 will be higher than last year and could have implications for the trade during the early months of the New Year.
- Hence, carry-over or cross-contamination can occur in continuous flow analyzers if suitable precautions are not taken.
- The department has "carry-over larvacide" from last year that will be rationed throughout the summer, he said. IndyStar.com Top Stories