transcription, транскрипция: [ oʊvə(r)rʌn ]
( overruns, overrunning, overran)
1.
If an army or an armed force overruns a place, area, or country, it succeeds in occupying it very quickly.
A group of rebels overran the port area and most of the northern suburbs...
VERB : V n
2.
If you say that a place is overrun with things that you consider undesirable, you mean that there are a large number of them there.
The Hotel has been ordered to close because it is overrun by mice and rats...
Padua and Vicenza are prosperous, well-preserved cities, not overrun by tourists.
ADJ : v-link ADJ , usu ADJ with/by n
3.
If an event or meeting overruns by, for example, ten minutes, it continues for ten minutes longer than it was intended to.
Tuesday’s lunch overran by three-quarters of an hour...
The talks overran their allotted time.
VERB : V by n , V n , also V
4.
If costs overrun , they are higher than was planned or expected. ( BUSINESS )
We should stop the nonsense of taxpayers trying to finance new weapons whose costs always overrun hugely...
Costs overran the budget by about 30%.
VERB : V , V n
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Overrun is also a noun.
He was stunned to discover cost overruns of at least $1 billion.
N-COUNT : usu n N