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
- All of this is a sensible carry-over to the second publication of what is being said in the House.
- There was a carry-over of sediment from the clarifiers into the River Nore.
- A carry-over from winter, the freshest styles are cut to reveal the toes, and come in soft canvas and slouchy leather.
- So if adult consumption is declining, that has had some carry-over to youth consumption.
- The non-germinating blind-seeds carry a mass of fungus tissue in the endosperm and are the carry-over phase of the disease.
- Anyway, this is a carry-over from yesterday's post.
- The human body is said to contain many organs that are a carry-over from our evolutionary development - the appendix, the coccyx, tonsils, ear muscles, etc.
- One of the problems that cricket faces in Africa is a perception that it's a carry-over from previous colonial regimes.
- Some of the problems schools are facing are a carry-over from the previous government's policies.
- The budget includes a ￡7 million carry-over from last year.
