Usually means: Costs not directly tied to production.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. overhead: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. overhead: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overhead: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. overhead: Collins English Dictionary
  5. overhead: Vocabulary.com
  6. Overhead, overhead: Wordnik
  7. overhead: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. overhead: Wiktionary
  9. overhead: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. overhead: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. overhead: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. overhead: Dictionary.com
  13. overhead: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. overhead: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Overhead (business), Overhead (computing), Overhead (engineering), Overhead: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Overhead: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. overhead: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. overhead: Rhymezone
  19. Overhead: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. overhead: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. overhead: Free Dictionary
  22. overhead: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. overhead: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. overhead: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. overhead: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. OVERHEAD: Accounting Glossary
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Overhead: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  8. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Overhead: Investopedia
  10. overhead: Legal dictionary
  11. overhead: Financial dictionary
  12. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. overhead: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. Overhead (business), overhead: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Overhead (business), overhead: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overhead: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Overhead: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. overhead: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  located above, especially over the head
adjective:  (soccer) kicked over one's own head
noun:  (uncountable, business, accounting) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
noun:  (countable, business, accounting) The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (uncountable, business) Wasted money.
noun:  (tennis) A smash.
noun:  (nautical) The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel.
noun:  A compartment above the seats for stowing luggage in a passenger aircraft.
noun:  (transport) The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (juggling, by ellipsis) An overhead throw.
adverb:  Above one's head; in the sky.
adverb:  (archaic) Per head; for each individual.
noun:  (countable) An overhead projector.
noun:  (countable) A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency.

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