overhead

1. (uncountable, business, accounting) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.uncountable

2. (countable, business, accounting) The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.countable

3. (uncountable) Any cost or expenditure (monetary, time, effort or otherwise) incurred in a project or activity, which does not directly contribute to its progress or outcome.uncountable

4. (uncountable, business) Wasted money.uncountable

5. (tennis) A smash.countableuncountable

6. (nautical) The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel.countableuncountable

1. (archaic) Per head; for each individual.Examples: "[…] the influence of the minister's week-day attentions, first in creating, and afterwards in keeping up among the people of his parish their habit of Sabbath attendance. So indispensable in towns is the connexion between these two things, that were seat-rents let down at this moment to two shillings overhead, or even annihilated, so as to throw open the whole of the church room at accessible prices to the lowest of the people, we shall greatly mistake the result if we look for a great and visible increase of attendance per saltum on the part of the parish families."archaic

1. (countable) An overhead projector.countable

2. (countable) A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency.countable