If you are lying down and you roll over, you turn your body so that a different part of you is facing upward.
I rolled over and went back to sleep.
2. phrasal verb
If a moving vehicle such as a car rolls over, it turns over many times, usually because it has crashed.
Those kinds of vehicles are more likely to roll over than passenger cars.
3. phrasal verb
If you say that someone rolls over, you mean that they stop resisting someone and do what the other person wants them to do.
That's why most people and organizations just roll over and give up when they'rechallenged or attacked by the I.R.S.
4. phrasal verb
If you roll over a loan or other financial arrangement, you extend it, for example by adding it to another loan.
[business]
There seems to be no way to spread out the tax or roll over the cash into anotherpension plan.
5. See also rollover
6. phrasal verb
In lotteries and similar games, if a jackpot rolls over, it is not won by anyone and the money is added to the prize money for the next lottery.
If the jackpot isn't won this week it will roll over again to next week.
7. See also rollover
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roll over in British English
verb(adverb)
1. (intransitive)
to overturn
2. roll (sense 16)
3. slang
to surrender
4. (transitive)
to allow (a loan, prize, etc) to continue in force for a further period
nounrollover
5.
a.
an instance of such continuance of a loan, prize, etc
b.
(as modifier)
a rollover jackpot
6.
an accident where a vehicle or boat overturns
It is hoped anti-lock brakes will prevent rollovers.
roll over in American English
1. US
to refinance (a maturing note, etc.)
2. US
to reinvest (funds) so as to defer the payment of taxes
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Examples of 'roll over' in a sentence
roll over
To cover their positions the affected banks are refusing to roll over loans.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The problem comes when the loan is rolled over.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The banks were reluctant to roll over loans.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Now statistics show more than one in four loans are being rolled over.
The Sun (2013)
It will come down hard if you continue to roll over the loan without paying tax.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
We rolled over again and this time he was on top.
Alexander Masters STUART: A Life Backwards (2005)
Time and again they get rolled over in the games that really matter.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The banks are expected to roll over again rather than send the company to the wall.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Otherwise we are just going to roll over again.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
And we roll over and take it.
The Sun (2009)
We must not roll over again.
The Sun (2016)
The prize fund had reached its limit after rolling over 13 times.
The Sun (2011)
If no one wins, it will roll over again.
The Sun (2009)
If it is, it rolls over again.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
He rolled over after an innocent challenge, looked up at the ref and then rolled over again.
The Sun (2013)
It wants new regulations limiting to five the number of payday loans that households can take out or roll over in any one year.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
TWO cops had a lucky escape after rolling over a patrol car in a chase.
The Sun (2016)
The prize pot had rolled over after players on the two previous editions failed to land the 500,000 jackpot.
The Sun (2012)
And I have had no choice but to roll over and take it.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
A refusal to extend or roll over this loan would leave Cyprus needing a larger bailout from the eurozone.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
When we resumed play we'd roll over England again.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Overall, companies' balance sheets are in good health and banks are showing considerable forbearance in rolling over loans to businesses.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
MPs have urged the Government to introduce tougher measures for payday lenders, including limits on the rolling over of loans and theenforcement of proper record keeping.