Betydelse av overrun på svenska

• 0 If unwanted people or things overrun, they fill a place quickly and in large numbers:

  • Rebel soldiers overran the embassy last night.

  • Our kitchen is overrun with cockroaches.

• 1 to continue past an intended limit, especially a finishing time or a cost:

  • My evening class overran by ten minutes.

  • It looks as if we're going to overrun our budget.

• 2 a finishing time or a cost that continues past an intended limit:

  • The project was plagued by cost overruns and delays.

  • Politicians, facing budget overruns, continue to cut spending.

• 3 to spread over an area quickly and in large numbers:

  • The city has become increasingly unpleasant because it is overrun with tourists.

• 4 to continue past an agreed or expected limit, especially a finishing time or a cost:

  • Analysts say the cost of the improvements are bound to overrun.

  • overrun by 10 minutes/2 weeks/$1 million, etc. The 45 minutes allocated for the briefing overran by almost 30 minutes.

• 5 the fact that something has cost more money or taken more time than planned, or the additional amount of money or time spent:

  • He expects the department to cover this year's overrun by moving money from development.

  • an overrun of sth We found projects had an average time overrun of 17%.