adverb, adjective, noun
adverb above your head; in the sky:
Planes flew overhead constantly. * Thunder boomed in the sky overhead.
Part of speech: adjective
1 above your head; raised above the ground:
overhead power lines
2 [onlybeforenoun] connected with the general costs of running a business or an organization, for example paying for rent or electricity:
overhead costs
noun [U] (especially AmE) = OVERHEADS
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for overhead is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is overhead a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, overhead is tagged as adjective.
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