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ˈroll-over orig. U.S.
Also rollover, roll over.
[f. to roll over.]
1. An overturning, a turning upside down; a complete revolution.
1945Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 19 Mar. 2/4 (heading) Yank describes B-29 roll over in Osaka raid. 1950Dance Mag. Dec. 35/2 Her ‘dance’ included back⁓bends, cartwheels, splits and ‘four successive rollovers’. 1955Sun (Baltimore) 19 July 17/6 Crash rollovers, head on collisions and T-bone crashes. 1962Amer. Speech XXXVII. 272 All sorts of strapping and cushioning devices to insure survival of the driver in case of a high⁓speed collision or roll-over. c1973J. Cholerton Adv. Acrobatic Tricks & Dances (Assoc. Amer. Tap Dancing) 11 Two backward rollovers, two nip-ups (to left), to centre. 1973Sci. Amer. Feb. 80/1 Although frontal collisions are the most frequent accidents, side collisions and roll-overs are by far the most dangerous. 1977Time 24 Jan. 2/3 (Advt.), The ESV's have proved their life-saving value in head-on and rear-end collisions, side-swipes and roll-overs.
2. Econ. Extension or transfer of a debt or other financial relationship; spec. reinvestment of money realized on the maturing of stocks, bonds, etc.; an issue of stocks or bonds replacing one which matures.
1958Fortnightly Rev. (Anderson & Strudwick, Richmond, Va.) 27 June 4 Roll-over, a stock or bond issue which takes the place of one that is maturing (and into which the money realized on the maturing issue may be put). 1958Washington Post 6 Nov. a18/1 We have..a roll-over, something in the order of $23 billion worth of short-term notes, I think four times, certainly three. 1972Times 27 June (Tokyo Suppl.) p. v/4 The Japanese phrase ‘circular-buying’ covers the roll-over of speculative funds from one sector to another. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 22 May 9/5 (Advt.), If you've been buying notes, bills or certificates of deposit for yourself or your organization, you'll find it's a lot easier to buy Dreyfus Liquid Assets. There's no paperwork, no worrying about maturity dates, roll-overs, safe-keeping or delivery—and there's no sales charge.
3. attrib. and Comb., as (sense 1) roll-over accident, roll-over bar, roll-over protection; (sense 2) roll-over contract, roll-over contribution, roll-over credit, roll-over facility, roll-over provision, roll-over relief.
1970Motoring Which? July 107/2 Door release buttons stuck out a little—might allow doors to open in a roll⁓over accident.
1970Daily Tel. 15 June 6/5 Roll-over bars have long been standard fittings on open racing cars.
1973P. Einzig Roll-Over Credits xv. 102 At the time of writing there is a complete lack of standardisation in the terms of roll-over contracts.
1976National Observer (U.S.) 3 July 9/1 In such a situation the transfer of funds is treated as a ‘roll-over contribution’.
1973P. Einzig Roll-Over Credits i. 3 One of the most important changes has been the evolution..of the system of roll-over credits—medium term credits with variable interest rates which are adjusted at fixed intervals to changes in the current market rates for short-term credits.
1975Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 25 July 30/3 If a creditor will only lend his money at short-term, but a debtor cannot hope to pay his debts for a long time, he is offered what is called a ‘rollover facility’—a debt which is nominally short-term, but is automatically relent when it falls due for payment.
1972Times 28 Dec. 21/1 Meeting all the foreseeable regulations on crash and roll-over protection.
1974Daily Tel. 27 Apr. 21/2 Some developers had been hoping that the ‘roll over’ provisions would have been extended to the new tax.
1973Scotsman 12 Jan. 6/2 Changes in capital gains tax should give either tapering relief on gifts or, if this is rejected, roll-over relief provisions on gifts. 1976Incorporated Linguist XV. 72/2 The ‘roll-over relief’ where the gain on the disposal of an asset is transferred into the asset which replaces it, so that although the [capital gains] tax is payable, it is so only on the disposal of the final asset (eg on retirement). 1977D. W. Healey in Times 30 Mar. 4/8, I propose an improved rollover relief for what is often called ‘domestication’, that is the transfer of an overseas branch to a separate non-resident company.
▸ In a lottery: the cumulative carry-over of prize money from one draw to the next, typically added to the value of the jackpot; an accumulated jackpot, or a lottery draw with such a jackpot.
1981Milwaukee Jrnl. 19 July b3/4 (heading) Lottery jackpot rollover close to $4 million... The Lotto 47 jackpot went unclaimed..and will offer at least $4 million in the next drawing. 1994Times 5 Dec. 3/2 Although eight second-prize winners each won {pstlg}265,637, the jackpot went unclaimed and the rollover is almost certain to stimulate even bigger interest in next Saturday's draw. 1997Daily Mail 27 Mar. 31/1 Saturday's National Lottery draw will be a rollover after no one matched the six winning numbers in last night's draw. 2001Tampa (Florida) Tribune (Electronic ed.) 13 Apr. 4 Olmstead, 42, an engineer from Michigan, won $1 million plus $1.18 million in rollover prize money that had been building since January. |