Vad betyder overrun på svenska och vad är definitionen av overrun?

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overrun betydelse and definition

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%.

The contract would discourage overruns or delays with financial penalties.
The company was fined £14 million for engineering overruns over the New Year period.
They would have to cover overruns on their projects or scale them back to budget.
Disputes among subcontractors would follow if the causes of delays are not clearly established and the cost overruns are not reimbursed properly.
When necessary, the government must then propose changes in the legal framework to parliament to prevent overruns, or alternatively compensate by cutting expenditures elsewhere.
Failing to control the technology transfer can delay the business process and result in budget overruns.
Urban growth overran the capacity of traditional urban centres and expanded throughout the landscape at the expense of open spaces.
In the latter case, the budget act requires that the government suggest countermeasures in case overruns are foreseen.