overhang betydelse and definition

Betydelse av overhang på svenska

• 0 to stick out over something at a lower level:

  • Several large trees overhang the path.

• 1 to have a negative effect on a situation:

  • Overhanging the controversy is the question of how much the administration knew about the arms deal.

• 2 the part of a rock or roof that sticks out over something below:

  • The church is unsafe because it was built on an overhang.

• 3 something that has a negative effect on a situation:

  • Prices are unlikely to increase while there is an overhang of 40,000 unsold new houses.

  • Latin America's current debt overhang

• 4 (of something at a high level) to stick out farther than something at a lower level and therefore not to have any support from below, or to hang over:

  • The balcony overhangs the patio, creating a shady place to sit.

• 5 a quantity of goods or other things that have not been sold when they should have been:

  • a stock/an inventory/a supply overhang We're about to enter the selling season with a really big supply overhang.

  • an overhang of sth Prices are unlikely to increase while there is an overhang of 40,000 unsold new houses.

• 6 a situation on a stock market in which a quantity of shares is available but not sold, reducing their price:

  • an overhang of sth The potential overhang of more than 200 million shares of stock is one of a number of financial and legal risks that investors in the company face.

• 7 to bring down the price of something because there is too much of it available:

  • Massive gold stocks continue to overhang the market, traders say.