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carry-over
[f. carry over, carry v. 54 b.]
On the Stock Exchange: postponement of payment of an account until the next settling-day; the amount so kept over. Also attrib. Cf. contango.
1894Daily News 29 Jan. 2/5 Grand Trunk stocks are from 2 to 4 per cent. higher than at the last ‘carry over’. 1895Ibid. 19 Oct. 2 The carry-over price was fixed at 27/8. 1922Daily Mail 12 Dec. 3 It was Carry-over day in the Mining market, and ‘new-time’ dealing there was on a small scale. In view of to-day being the general Carry-over, there was a certain amount of realising.
b. transf. Something remaining or transferred from one period, process, etc., to the next; a balance carried forward; a transference.
1925London Teacher & Lond. School Rev. 13 Nov. 393/2 The Board in 1921 announced suddenly that they would not pay grants on the full carry-over of the three Burnham scales. 1927Observer 27 Nov. 21/2 A very heavy carry-over of work from the adjournment on December 21 is inevitable, as hundreds of cases are awaiting trial in the King's Bench Division. 1931Economist 17 Jan. 104/1 To make room for the absorption of the present unprecedentedly huge carry-over by restricting further production or export during the coming five years. 1934Balmer & Wylie After Worlds Collide 43 ‘He was indubitably wrong about hundreds of other theories.’ Tony grinned at this carry-over of this curious man's prejudices and attitudes. 1940H. G. Wells All aboard for Ararat iii. 85 Will they evaporate with the rest of their class? Will there be no carry-over from them for the Ark? 1952Scrutiny XVIII. iii. 197 Women in Love is wholly self-contained, and, for all the carry-over of names of characters, has no organic connexion with The Rainbow. 1955J. G. Davis Dict. Dairying (ed. 2) 107 Carry-over in many [milk-bottle-washing] machines of the ordinary detergent solution is inevitable. |