Usually means: Supersede existing function with new.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word override:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. override: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. override: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. override: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. override: Collins English Dictionary
  5. override: Vocabulary.com
  6. Override, override: Wordnik
  7. override: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. override: Wiktionary
  9. override: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. override: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. override: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. override: Dictionary.com
  13. override: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. override: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. OverRide (video game), Override (film), Override (object-oriented programming), Override: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Override: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. override: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. override: Rhymezone
  19. override: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. override: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. override: Free Dictionary
  22. override: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. override: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. C-SPAN Congressional Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Override: GLOSSARY OF LEGISLATIVE TERMS
  4. override: Legal dictionary
  5. override: Financial dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. override: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. override: Medical dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Override: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  3. OVERRIDE: Power Engineering

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To ride across or beyond something.
verb:  To ride over the top of something, usually forcibly.
verb:  To ride a horse too hard.
verb:  To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
verb:  To give commands of a higher priority to an automated system; to take manual control of an automated system
verb:  (object-oriented programming) To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.
noun:  A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
noun:  A royalty.
noun:  A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.
noun:  (object-oriented programming) A method with the same name and signature as a method in a superclass, which runs instead of that method, when an object of the subclass is involved.

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