OVERALL


Meaning of OVERALL in English

I. adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a combined/overall total (= the sum of two or more amounts added together )

The Jones family has a combined total of 143 years' service with the company.

a general/overall/broad assessment (= that covers the main features or parts of something, not the details )

The doctor must carry out a general assessment of the patient’s health.

an overall budget (= total )

There has been an increase in the overall budget made available by the Government for training.

an overall majority (= more votes than anyone else )

What happens if no candidate receives an overall majority?

an overall/general picture

The study is intended to provide an overall picture of political activity in the nation.

overall majority

The Conservatives had a huge overall majority in the House of Commons.

overall responsibility

The Department of Education has overall responsibility for schools and universities.

the general/overall appearance

The second phase of the project is to improve the town’s overall appearance.

the overall/general impression

The general impression was of a very efficiently run company.

the overall/general/broad aim (= that concerns the main aim rather than all the details )

The overall aim of the project is to encourage young people to stay in higher education.

Guided by the general aim of the project, we aimed to reach a number of key objectives.

total/overall expenditure

The company's total expenditure rose by 19%.

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■ NOUN

aim

The overall aim of the book is to help with developing activities which meet the needs and wishes of individual older people.

The overall aim is to ensure that the welfare state encourages rather than penalizes personal initiative.

There will need to be an initial prospectus which states the overall aims , content and form of the course.

The overall aim was to identify the most appropriate law to govern a particular issue.

The overall aim is to confer the right on professionals to have their qualifications recognised in all member states.

The overall aim To have improved Bill's performance as a supervisor.

In each case the overall aims of nursing remain the same.

Other departments, too, make their contribution to these overall aims .

balance

Whatever the overall balance sheet, Althusser's impact has been undeniable.

When the accountants finish their calculations, all countries have an overall balance of payments equal to zero.

Obviously, Mr Lamont accepts this view and the overall balance he has struck would seem to be right.

Rather it is the quality of representation resulting from the overall balance of interests.

It became even more pronounced during the period under consideration as the overall balance between manufacturing and services altered.

Specially, appointment to the bench should achieve some overall balance as between the nominees of the main political parties in the area.

Individual populations may still fluctuate, but the overall balance of the community remains steady.

budget

Since the overall budget hadn't increased, the Making Belfast Work money could not be regarded as additional to that budget.

In the second stage, choose the expenditure allocation so as to maximize overall welfare subject to the overall budget constraint.

Some seek external bank loans to support the overall budget due to domestic taxation and borrowing being inadequate.

Often projects are planned with an overall budget , not broken down into component pieces.

The finance director gives committees advice on the authority's overall budget constraints for the next year.

I testified 16 years ago that we ought to publish the overall budget .

Entitlements now consume more than half the overall budget .

control

He said it should be possible to provide delegation of responsibility to regional staff, without prejudicing overall control .

It contains sixteen basic rules, which include some for overall control and some which collect data.

No party has overall control , but the Labour and Conservative groups have had an agreement to keep out the Liberal Democrats.

In Oxfordshire, 8 years without overall control will continue for another 4.

There's still no overall control , but it was the Liberal Democrats' night.

Sir George Young 937, but Brent has no overall control .

In this situation the need for an overall control of book provision needs to be carefully examined.

cost

According to the planning application, which is dated January 1991, the estimated overall cost of the scheme is £51 million.

The overall cost per alteration in management was £129.00.

This rate varies from lender to lender and can make a huge difference to the overall cost of your loan.

They also increase the overall cost of such a mistake.

They found that gearing did not significantly increase the overall cost of funds to the firm.

The difference in overall cost is in the price of conveyancing.

At a cost of £63.00 per study the overall cost per change in management was £129.00.

When the assistant worked out the overall cost I was astounded.

design

However, they do not establish themselves as an emblem to the overall design .

Praise: Excellent overall design , engineering and construction.

Judges will consider overall design , safety, level of fun and how the playground caters for children with disabilities.

The overall design of the National Curriculum is not planned.

The overall design of your reports is an important part of your marketing effort.

It would therefore be easier to restrict this seam to plain fabrics or those with a small overall design .

Once you are happy with the overall design , fix it in position with rubber solution adhesive as firmly as possible.

effect

Sometimes natural oils are used to enhance the overall effect on the nervous and muscular system.

Add 160 luxury suites and the overall effect is pretty spectacular.

The budget in this context gives the management the opportunity to examine the overall effect of operating decisions.

The overall effect was most sinister: I was not surprised that superstitious servants should be fearful of the thing.

The overall effect from the picture was that if you got any closer you would be engulfed in fire.

But the overall effect was to help the guilty escape punishment.

The overall effect of this encounter was dramatic, because it was reassuring and put things in perspective.

The overall effect was grandfatherly-a gentleman of the old school, fusty, faintly absentminded, and deeply courteous.

growth

The overall growth projection for 1990 was 2.9 percent, and the same for 1991, as reflected in the G-7 economies.

But overall growth in the labor force will be only about as fast as growth in the general population.

The overall growth rates for the two periods were 2.82 percent and 2.93 percent perannum respectively.

Subsequent economic development in these newly independent nations was assisted by the overall growth of world trade and investment.

Subsequently, with the cuts in public expenditure, there has been a decline in the overall growth of public service jobs.

This configuration was, John argued, propitious for the overall growth of the economy.

Family Assurance Society's managed funds have over the past 13 years produced overall growth rates averaging 17% perannum.

health

There are also other measures that can improve overall health and make the body more resilient.

For that reason it more than anything determines the overall health and vitality of the system.

This is concerned with how people evaluate their overall health status.

The new report looks at overall health systems, from private doctors' offices to insurance.

The provision of an overall health and safety regime is considerably less today than it once was.

The drug also improved the insulin sensitivity of the subjects, which could improve their overall health .

The General Household Survey asks respondents to rate their overall health as good, poor or fairly good for the previous year.

The ability to control our own fertility gives women choice and timing, as well as improved overall health .

impact

The company claimed that the overall impact of the revised figures was small.

It is simply that their numbers were fewer and hence their overall impact appears less.

Now they must consider the overall impact , and the truthfulness of the total picture.

But here is the place briefly to consider the overall impact of the Vikings on the West Frankish economy.

Such information hardly gives the impression that the booklet has had much overall impact on the secondary schools in the borough.

impression

The overall impression is one of rather old-fashioned comfort marred by a degree of shabbiness.

Thus the overall impression created is secular and not religious.

Only the overall impression was familiar, not the individual pieces.

Perhaps this unhappy memory has clouded the overall impression of the country, which is unfortunate.

Even so, an overall impression of the organisation is still necessary.

The musicians fill out evaluation forms, rating the candidates' knowledge, technique and overall impression .

We therefore get an overall impression of relative flexibility.

The movement of certain pieces is anticipated, and sequences of movements integrated into overall impressions of the progress of the game.

increase

Despite this diversion the board grew significantly showing an overall increase in income of 20% this year.

A processing unit can assume a new state even if the result is an overall increase in energy.

Despite the interference in short term memory, the overall increase in information sampled will improve long term memory.

This policy halted the previously continuous growth of local authority tenancies and contributed to the overall increase in owner occupancy.

When compared with 1985 figures, there was an overall increase of 40%.

It therefore represents a tidal flow, without any overall increase .

The overall increase in the net costs of the two Homes for the year was £75,789.

My plans for 1992-93 provide for an overall increase in my education programme of some 15 percent. over that for 1991-92.

level

Despite the difference in overall level of performance the relationship between risk and recognition performance in the two studies was remarkably similar.

Profitability ratios are very encouraging, with both the overall level and trend of earnings looking positive.

The final effect on the overall level of unemployment is uncertain.

As cur-rent assets grow with sales, for example, the overall level of current assets will increase permanently.

Leadership plays a key role in the overall levels of motivation and collaboration. 11.

In the first part of the chapter we deal with those arguments concerned with the impact on the overall level of employment.

The effect of short spacing on infant mortality seems to be loosely associated with the overall level of infant mortality.

Although this included controlling overall levels of local government spending, the role of local government was not in question.

majority

Only Limavady changed from unionist to nationalist hands, and Magherafelt moved from no overall majority to nationalist control.

Furthermore, giving existing voting behaviour, it would deprive any one party of an overall majority of seats.

The government was elected in October 1974 with an overall majority of three.

To have an overall majority a party needs to win 326 seats.

The Conservatives won 330 seats, against 287 for Labour, and an overall majority of 30.

Now, the Leader of that parliamentary party with an overall majority is entitled to be asked to form a government.

More than double, 65 percent, would prefer the Tories or Labour to have an overall majority .

Governments were returned with overall majorities .

management

Traditionally doctors have played a small role in the overall management of these types of injuries after the initial stages.

He has overall management responsibility for the membership and administration activities.

To assist in the overall management of the Division.

Fife Regional Council is responsible for the overall management of the project.

The increased frequency of malignant disease in this population is of importance in view of the major impact on overall management .

market

That represented 12 percent more passengers and 17 percent more cars, increasing their overall market share to 55.6 percent in both.

That easily trumped the 23 percent winnings turned in by the overall market .

In fact there was other good news in London with overall market share rising to 9.1 per cent.

Larger companies in the industry acquired smaller companies, while the overall market demand for propane remained relatively stable.

However, they do provide the reader with some indication of the growth and size of the overall market .

Shares are basically flat in the past year, while the overall market has soared.

There is little assurance as to how individual participants or the overall market will behave.

Mic now has about a third of the overall market .

pattern

We look first at the changing overall pattern of lending.

Does the overall pattern of policy decisions clearly benefit the elite?

The contrast may itself be a significant feature of the overall pattern .

But this overall pattern misses the up-skilling within occupations and industries.

Second, the deviant cases whose level of democracy is unexpected for 1 993 may be temporary exceptions to the overall pattern .

Observers can zoom in or out to understand overall patterns .

But the overall pattern is disturbing.

performance

This demonstrates the immense importance of the detector in the overall performance of the zoned system.

Significant gaps continue in the overall performance of girls, despite the narrowing of the gender gap in verbal and mathematical performance.

Both types of superior have measures of the organization's overall performance - profits in private firms, popularity in governments.

The faith in regularities applies only to overall performances and to long run outcomes in human collective life.

The question is, does this added complexity and the assumption on which it is based add anything to the overall performance ?

The overall performance of the system is then about forty to fifty watts per square meter, averaged over day and night.

Time efficiency - Does the efficiency of the operations cause a bottleneck in the overall performance of the system?

Perry and Rubin scored the highest grades for overall performance .

picture

Using distance, parsimony and maximum-likelihood methods the overall picture of eukaryote small-subunit rRNA phylogeny remains unchanged.

Nevertheless, the overall picture is clear.

What is the overall picture of the process of addictive disease?

The overall picture is growing clearer.

Unfortunately, most bureaucracies tend to concentrate on small details, sacrificing the overall picture .

Have an overall picture in mind before you start on all the details 4.

But this three-tier core is just part of the overall picture .

The overall picture of sentencing and penal practice presents a rather more complicated situation.

plan

Reading needs to be recognized as just one more part of your overall plan and pattern of tackling hearing loss.

It is only within the parameters of such an overall plan that a valid science and technology policy can be articulated.

And, as 1915 drew to its close, some overall plan could be formulated.

Approves doctrinal formulations, weapons programmes, and draws up overall plan for Politburo ratification.

There is not necessarily any overall plan for the development and maintenance of the schedules.

There was no need for the pebbles in the overall plan , and there was no likelihood of their imminent deployment.

Perhaps it was not intended as an overall plan .

Firstly, a chart showing an overall plan of study for, say the next nine months.

policy

In mid-October Dimitrov requested a vote of confidence in his government's overall policy .

Gorbachev was eager to meet with Reagan, as a part of his overall policy of glasnost, or openness.

This may affect their autonomy at least in terms of overall policy .

quality

The overall quality levels of restoration and maintenance are probably higher now than ever before and market values have aided this aspect.

And the overall quality of care remains vulnerable to health industry cost-cutting and downsizing.

Overall these criticisms are fairly minor given the overall quality and value of this text.

They have seen crime rates and their feelings of physical insecurity rise, and their overall quality of life plummet.

But overall quality , everyone agreed, had never been so high.

Nevertheless, the overall quality of the fair was poorer than last year's.

What is the overall quality of the picture?

I fully endorse Kasparov's assessment of the overall quality from New York and Lyons.

responsibility

Azed's new department is headed by Thomas Egger, who will have overall responsibility for buying, marketing and sales.

Mr Treuting will have overall responsibility for the growth and profitability of Verio's operations in the Southeast business market.

He was not afraid of overall responsibility .

Usually the baby has one nurse with overall responsibility for primary care and then a designated primary nurse for each shift.

Articles of government were altered in such a way as to increase the range of governors' overall responsibilities .

The general manager has overall responsibility for the operation of the hotel.

In this respect Ramsay Spence was given overall responsibility for quality, health, safety and environmental matters during the year.

Government chief executives, like their counterparts in the private sector, have overall responsibility for how their organizations perform.

result

Added together, market forces generate an overall result which no-one can predict.

The overall result will be more effective management of medical costs.

What has the overall result been?

But if you stash 90 % of your money in a savings account, your overall results will almost inevitably be mediocre.

There are still blemishes, subtly dished characters show quite visible stepping in the vertical plane but the overall results look excellent.

When combined with the effect on bone, the overall result is a decreased blood phosphorus.

Only Nottingham has overall results below the average in 1997 and 1998.

The overall result is a very distracted youngster.

size

The available space in the cabinet or box housing the p.c.b. which determines the overall size of the board. 4.

To change the overall size of the page, press Alt-F8.

The overall size of the potential market is even less clear.

Centralization has little to do with overall size .

This is a serious omission, given the importance of sentence lengths in determining the overall size of the prison population.

This storage of glycogen in the muscles adds to the overall size of the muscles.

The overall size of the army was also cut.

It is claimed in the Preface that the index has been refined to minimise increase in the overall size of the volume.

strategy

Moreover, it alerts us to the fact that short-sighted tactics may thwart the overall strategy .

Case will take responsibility for overall strategy and deal-making in his role as company chairman.

Each practice area strategy should also be consistent with the firm's overall strategy.

Each was capable in his way but no overall strategy for 1915 was devised between them.

In the meantime, it is presently developing its overall strategy .

This is a good determinant for overall strategy .

As new ideas come up during preparations the chart will help you assess their potential within the overall strategy .

Playing chess is not simply about how the pieces move, it is about the overall strategy .

structure

These forms underlie and explain both individual figures and the overall structure of the play.

Although the new practices elevated patient morale, they had little effect on the overall structure of the leprosy control program.

Decisions about suppliers also affect the overall structure of competition.

Although glasses in general do have a definite local structure their overall structure is disordered.

Though his subsequent report did not directly criticize Campbell, it did attack the overall structure of the police and judiciary.

You want an overall structure to a topic as well as specific information.

There were quite marked differences in the overall structure of the bird populations.

view

This handbook will help to give you an overall view of the businesses of the P&O Group to which you belong.

However, lectures can be used as a stimulus, to present an overall view and to convey enthusiasm about the subject.

Recently it has been well-aired in this country through broadcasts and festivals; enough to form an initial overall view .

Mr. Nelson I was not dealing with that important overall view , which the hon. Gentleman also expressed at length yesterday.

These interpretations will fill gaps, clarify, explain, and provide an overall view . 1.

A range of possible responses can be presented to members matching, some overall view of priorities.

The charts given here are I hope, detailed enough to show the overall view .

Is sufficient thought being given to the implications, and is anyone taking an overall view ?

winner

Here are some of the best, along with the overall winner .

Both women have maximum Grand Prix points and whoever wins their next head-to-head on Friday could be the overall winner .

This year's overall winner was the reconstruction of the Kennet and Avon canal from Bristol to Reading.

Entry is free and there is £100 up for grabs with the overall winner receiving the Roy Tongue Cup.

An overall winner and a runner-up were chosen from the many entries and their reviews were featured in TeleClub a few weeks ago.

Category three saw Jasper Sharpe outreach everyone to gain 127 points and he looks favourite for an overall winner .

And with such a high class field picking an overall winner is a task in itself.

The Euro Cup competition links together a series of Continental races, with a points-scoring system producing an overall winner .

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Conference members agreed on an overall approach to drug abuse that focuses on prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation.

Even though some of the details are badly done, the overall effect of the painting is very dramatic.

His attitude towards his job seemed consistent with his overall approach to life.

The overall cost of the trip is $500.

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Also the combination of both activities enables banks to reduce overall operating costs.

Analysts here noted this was an insignificant drop when considered against the overall value of Wall Street stock listings.

Day-to-day survival adds perhaps less to overall future genetic investment than does populating a new habitat.

Difficulties that arise from the overall direction of society can then be dumped on a single social group.

He said it should be possible to provide delegation of responsibility to regional staff, without prejudicing overall control.

Larger companies in the industry acquired smaller companies, while the overall market demand for propane remained relatively stable.

The final effect on the overall level of unemployment is uncertain.

This would have the advantage of allowing forward planning in terms of an overall residential training programme for 1988 and 1989.

II. adverb

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Overall , it's been a good year.

One or two products didn't do so well, but overall we've had a highly successful year.

The project budget is around $25 million overall .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And so, overall , few new jobs would be created.

At Merrill overall , the estimated increase in pay and benefits per employee is 3 %, according to Johnson Associates Inc.

Miller, Dawes, Moceanu and Strug all placed in the top 11 overall .

Most patients are dead within a year of the diagnosis and overall , less than 1% live more than five years.

Six out of 10 Labour supporters, and 69 % of voters overall , opposed joining the euro.

There are more women in positions of power-though their numbers overall are still pitifully few.

III. noun

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■ ADJECTIVE

blue

Both were dressed in blue overalls .

The prime suspect is a man in his 20s, who wears blue overalls and a red baseball cap.

Alec Llewellyn nodded seriously at me as he walked off in his blue overalls , Alec, that snappy dresser.

Men in blue overalls with newspapers sticking out of back pockets wandered in.

Although the tail of this aircraft is still camouflaged. the rest of it has already been painted blue overall .

McGowan wore the faded blue overalls of a city sanitation man.

A young girl, also wearing a blue overall , came into the office.

This aircraft, V7101, had been stripped of all possible equipment and guns, and had been painted blue overall .

white

That white overall was a passport to the scene of the murder.

Over it he wore blue and white striped overalls .

You will then change into a set of white overalls which are made of paper.

Just over 81 percent of all minimum wage workers are white in a population that is 84 percent white overall .

The engineers quite terrified me; like angels in hell with their white overalls .

There were other men in the chill room, all dressed in white overalls .

A police helicopter was used in the search for the two men who were both white and wearing overalls .

With that he reached into the pocket of his white overall and took out a small pair of scissors.

■ VERB

wear

She had lots of rings, on both hands, and she always wore overalls .

I am wearing overalls and a striped pullover I hate because it reminds me of the clothes men wear on chain gangs.

She said they didn't notice you if you wore overalls .

As protection, he wears orange overalls , unzipped to the waist, a green tank top underneath.

He was still carrying his mop and broom and wearing his brown overalls .

The prime suspect is a man in his 20s, who wears blue overalls and a red baseball cap.

Number One, have your men wear overalls , gloves and flash-masks.

He was wearing a white overall on top of his grey prison issue clothes and he pulled the overall off as soon as he was inside.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

I am wearing overalls and a striped pullover I hate because it reminds me of the clothes men wear on chain gangs.

The woman in the grey overall serving customers looked just like anyone else.

You will then change into a set of white overalls which are made of paper.

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