'overhead' definitions:
Definition of 'overhead'
From: WordNet
adverb
Above your head; in the sky; "planes were flying overhead"
adverb
Above the head; over the head; "bring the legs together overhead"
adjective
Located or originating from above; "an overhead crossing" [ant: subsurface, surface]
noun
The expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes [syn: operating expense, operating cost, overhead, budget items]
noun
(computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command [syn: command processing overhead time, command processing overhead, command overhead, overhead]
noun
(computer science) the disk space required for information that is not data but is used for location and timing [syn: disk overhead, overhead]
noun
A transparency for use with an overhead projector [syn: viewgraph, overhead]
noun
(nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship
noun
A hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head [syn: overhead, smash]
Synonyms of 'overhead'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- above,
- abovestairs,
- airward,
- aloft,
- aloof,
- budget,
- budget items,
- burden of expenditure,
- carrying charge,
- ceiling,
- charges,
- cost,
- cost of living,
- cost-of-living allowance,
- cost-of-living index,
- costs,
- direct costs,
- disbursals,
- distributed costs,
- eaves,
- elevated,
- expenditures,
- expense,
- expense account,
- expenses,
- general expenses,
- high,
- high up,
- housetop,
- in the air,
- in the clouds,
- indirect costs,
- labor costs,
- lantern,
- liabilities,
- maintenance,
- material costs,
- on high,
- on stilts,
- on the peak,
- on tiptoe,
- operating costs,
- operating expense,
- outlay,
- over,
- overhead,
- penthouse,
- plafond,
- prime cost,
- raised,
- replacement cost,
- ridgepole,
- roof,
- roof garden,
- roof-deck,
- roofage,
- roofing,
- roofpole,
- rooftop,
- rooftree,
- shingles,
- skylight,
- skyward,
- slates,
- straight up,
- swindle sheet,
- tiles,
- tiptoe,
- to the zenith,
- top,
- unit cost,
- up,
- upper,
- upstairs,
- upward,
- upwards