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Definition of overhaul in English: overhaulverb əʊvəˈhɔːlˌoʊvərˈhɔl [with object]1Take apart (a piece of machinery or equipment) in order to examine it and repair it if necessary. the steering box was recently overhauled Example sentencesExamples - After the engine was overhauled, Doolittle planned a speed record between three capital cities.
- You might have never heard of Taca airlines, El Salvador's official airline, but you may have flown on a plane that was overhauled by their mechanics.
- It will be another few weeks before we can turn the key on the Bonanza's completely overhauled engine.
- They took the recently overhauled 610-horsepower V8 Ford racing engine plus tools and accessories.
- He overhauled his car's diesel engine and made a dual-fuel system running on both cooking fat and fossil fuels.
- Three Gascoyne sailors showed amazing ingenuity to overhaul and repair the tractor with very limited resources.
- At that location, the aircraft will be overhauled and presented by Rolls-Royce to a new owner.
- After the harvest the factory is to undergo a shutdown period during which the equipment will be overhauled and made ready for the new season.
- Do I have to overhaul my engine at the recommended time interval even though it's operating satisfactorily?
- Around 250 jobs in the division, which maintains, repairs and overhauls gas turbines, are being cut as part of a rationalisation plan.
- Today, using lean and six sigma methodologies, fewer mechanics are required and that same engine is overhauled in just 100 days.
- Alex and his son have completely and utterly overhauled this machine over a period of two and a half years in what was painstaking work.
- Airplane engines are typically overhauled every 10,000 hours.
- But Schurle, too, grew up on a Kansas farm, where at age 13 he had to overhaul the engine on his father's 1949 Frazer.
- Arms and military equipment in service have at best been overhauled or modernized on a limited scale.
- Ticket machines at tram stations have been overhauled because of the number of fake coins and notes used to pay for fares.
- As a result we have been maintaining and overhauling these engines for 25 years.
- He said he recognised the need for people to rest and for their ships and equipment to be overhauled.
- Fortunately, I had a newly overhauled engine I had been buying on the installment plan.
- Since it had remained static for a long time, he overhauled the engine.
Synonyms service, maintain, repair, mend, fix up, patch up, rebuild, renovate, revamp, recondition, remodel, refit, refurbish, modernize regulate, adjust check, check out, check over, check up on, give something a check-up, investigate, inspect, examine, survey revise, update, reconsider, rework, restructure, realign, shake up Northern English fettle informal do up - 1.1 Analyse and improve (a system)
moves to overhaul the income tax system Example sentencesExamples - Japanese policymakers said they would speed up steps to overhaul the economy and fix the banking system.
- I guess I don't subscribe to this notion that we have to radically overhaul Medicare.
- During this time, Navy infrastructure was overhauled, two-ocean basing was commenced and service conditions were improved.
- Whether this actually does square the corporates is debatable, and rather depends on whether the system results in them having to overhaul their systems every four years or every two.
- It says it won't increase taxes, but will spend €3m employing more than 30 testers to overhaul the driving-test system.
- He has more to do to overhaul the welfare system and public services in this country.
- Some experts were disappointed that Brown did not heed calls to overhaul the system.
- We radically overhaul our system of healthcare, and then do the thing that benefits our corporations.
- Its arrival has not yielded a new Constitution, rationalised the party system, modernised justice or overhauled the bureaucracy in any of the ways its advocates hoped it would.
- It set out to overhaul a central piece of desktop computing - the way users search and store information.
- He admitted that plans to overhaul the system would not now be completed until spring 2005 at the earliest, a delay of six months.
- As part of a big wave of free-market economic reforms, Argentina overhauled the creaking system in 1994.
- I have already begun to investigate the loss of the file to establish what went wrong and will take steps to ensure that our procedures are fully overhauled if necessary.
- The CSCI is radically overhauling its social care regulation and inspection frameworks.
- Major league general managers have more than a month left to overhaul their rosters.
- The whole thing's a geographical lottery at the moment, and it's high time the system was overhauled.
- They are going to have to overhaul the welfare system.
- In fact, I can single-handedly overhaul our educational system for free.
- There is an urgent need to overhaul this system and offer Canadians their right to choose between private and public medicine a right that citizens in most democracies take for granted.
- Meanwhile, fresh plans to overhaul computer systems and transform customer access to York council services will be discussed next Tuesday by executive members.
2British Overtake (someone), especially in a sporting event. Jodami overhauled his chief rival Example sentencesExamples - With our young players we would have a great base to build on and could overhaul our rivals.
- Now that the drivers' title is safely wrapped up, there was a warning that the safety-first tactics of previous weeks will now be replaced by more aggressive driving in a bid to overhaul the current team leaders.
- He overhauled team-mate Andy Burt, but always had too much to do to catch Hilton.
- Phelps aims to overhaul Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals.
- Needing to finish four places ahead of Paul Foerster and Kevin Burnham, the British pair were unable to overhaul their American rivals.
- Four years ago Radcliffe led throughout the Olympic 10,000 metres final in Sydney only to be overhauled with a lap to go, eventually finishing fourth.
- Henrik threatened for a moment, but soon tired, and Albert Hall never looked likely to overhaul the leader, who had two and a half lengths to spare at the line.
- After all, last year they clawed back a huge deficit to overhaul Wenger's men.
- Some day, if all goes well, Woods will surely overhaul Jack Nicklaus's record but there is still a long way to go.
- They remain the only county with a mathematical chance, albeit wafer-thin, of overhauling the leaders.
- She overhauled American Thompson to give Jodie Henry a slight edge going into the freestyle anchor leg.
- The pair were overhauled in the final 200m of a slow race won by Chris Mulvaney, with Andrew Baddeley second.
- I'd certainly done enough to come second overall, but had I done enough to overhaul Steve?
- The suggestion that any player could overhaul Jack Nicklaus in major championships was considered superfluous until Tiger Woods appeared in the mid-1990s.
- It was going to be an extremely tall order for any side to overhaul us.
- They lost by three runs after failing to overhaul Knutsford's meagre target of 109.
- However, he rose to the challenge and overhauled Samuel by mid-day to secure victory.
- Meanwhile, Tom Kennedy is now aiming to overhaul his father Keith's goalscoring record.
Synonyms overtake, pass, get past, go past, go by, go faster than, get/pull ahead of, outdistance, outstrip gain on, catch up with, draw level with British undertake
noun ˈəʊvəhɔːlˈoʊvərˌhɔl A thorough examination of machinery or a system, with repairs or changes made if necessary. a major overhaul of environmental policies Example sentencesExamples - It may, at long last, lead to a major overhaul of a system of which, as it stands currently, we should be thoroughly ashamed.
- They have been told to consider plans for a major overhaul of the committee system, in a bid to make that more effective.
- As part of a huge upgrading program in Old Cairo, these historic places of prayer are being given a thorough overhaul.
- Is a major overhaul of the security system justified?
- Sent this book by someone with less commercial muscle, his editors would unquestionably have demanded a thorough overhaul.
- In 1994, the concerns over the system of DNA testing resulted in a major overhaul of the way profiling was carried out.
- Now his comment comes as many Immigration and Customs officials are calling for a major overhaul of our border security system.
- There is also bad news on the way for young drivers, with a major overhaul planned for the provisional licence system.
- They can only be honestly confronted by a thorough overhaul of the system the minister will be asked to control.
- The office's performance needed a thorough overhaul, he said, including the way it dealt with the problem of illegal immigration.
- A new report charges that Ontario's food safety system needs a major overhaul.
- In the EU, there were two major overhauls in agricultural policies in 1992 and in 1999.
- Now the courts are forcing a thorough overhaul of that old order.
- If Indonesia wants to have an internationally competitive workforce, a major overhaul of its educational system is only the first step in a long process that lies ahead.
- Sixty-one percent of women, versus 45 percent of men, say that the healthcare system in America today needs a major overhaul.
- Doctors at Tasmania's public hospitals have been campaigning for a major overhaul of the system.
- The upgrade, which will include a major overhaul and rebuilding of the plant, is expected to take 18 months.
- The North Kerry area is to be included in a new national pilot scheme which will see a major overhaul of the schools' building system.
- A way out of the current impasse lies less in a thorough overhaul of the Constitution than in a public awakening to the need to strengthen citizens' participation in politics.
- The family law system requires nothing less than a major overhaul if it is to meet the changing demands of society.
Origin Early 17th century (originally in nautical use in the sense 'release rope tackle by slackening'): from over- + haul. Definition of overhaul in US English: overhaulverbˌoʊvərˈhɔlˌōvərˈhôl [with object]1Take apart (a piece of machinery or equipment) in order to examine it and repair it if necessary. a company that overhauls and repairs aircraft engines figurative moves to overhaul the income tax system Example sentencesExamples - Fortunately, I had a newly overhauled engine I had been buying on the installment plan.
- Arms and military equipment in service have at best been overhauled or modernized on a limited scale.
- He overhauled his car's diesel engine and made a dual-fuel system running on both cooking fat and fossil fuels.
- After the harvest the factory is to undergo a shutdown period during which the equipment will be overhauled and made ready for the new season.
- Ticket machines at tram stations have been overhauled because of the number of fake coins and notes used to pay for fares.
- You might have never heard of Taca airlines, El Salvador's official airline, but you may have flown on a plane that was overhauled by their mechanics.
- They took the recently overhauled 610-horsepower V8 Ford racing engine plus tools and accessories.
- Alex and his son have completely and utterly overhauled this machine over a period of two and a half years in what was painstaking work.
- At that location, the aircraft will be overhauled and presented by Rolls-Royce to a new owner.
- Since it had remained static for a long time, he overhauled the engine.
- Today, using lean and six sigma methodologies, fewer mechanics are required and that same engine is overhauled in just 100 days.
- Around 250 jobs in the division, which maintains, repairs and overhauls gas turbines, are being cut as part of a rationalisation plan.
- Three Gascoyne sailors showed amazing ingenuity to overhaul and repair the tractor with very limited resources.
- Do I have to overhaul my engine at the recommended time interval even though it's operating satisfactorily?
- But Schurle, too, grew up on a Kansas farm, where at age 13 he had to overhaul the engine on his father's 1949 Frazer.
- Airplane engines are typically overhauled every 10,000 hours.
- He said he recognised the need for people to rest and for their ships and equipment to be overhauled.
- As a result we have been maintaining and overhauling these engines for 25 years.
- It will be another few weeks before we can turn the key on the Bonanza's completely overhauled engine.
- After the engine was overhauled, Doolittle planned a speed record between three capital cities.
Synonyms service, maintain, repair, mend, fix up, patch up, rebuild, renovate, revamp, recondition, remodel, refit, refurbish, modernize 2British Overtake (someone), especially in a sporting event. Example sentencesExamples - Four years ago Radcliffe led throughout the Olympic 10,000 metres final in Sydney only to be overhauled with a lap to go, eventually finishing fourth.
- I'd certainly done enough to come second overall, but had I done enough to overhaul Steve?
- However, he rose to the challenge and overhauled Samuel by mid-day to secure victory.
- The suggestion that any player could overhaul Jack Nicklaus in major championships was considered superfluous until Tiger Woods appeared in the mid-1990s.
- Meanwhile, Tom Kennedy is now aiming to overhaul his father Keith's goalscoring record.
- Henrik threatened for a moment, but soon tired, and Albert Hall never looked likely to overhaul the leader, who had two and a half lengths to spare at the line.
- The pair were overhauled in the final 200m of a slow race won by Chris Mulvaney, with Andrew Baddeley second.
- They lost by three runs after failing to overhaul Knutsford's meagre target of 109.
- She overhauled American Thompson to give Jodie Henry a slight edge going into the freestyle anchor leg.
- After all, last year they clawed back a huge deficit to overhaul Wenger's men.
- Some day, if all goes well, Woods will surely overhaul Jack Nicklaus's record but there is still a long way to go.
- He overhauled team-mate Andy Burt, but always had too much to do to catch Hilton.
- Now that the drivers' title is safely wrapped up, there was a warning that the safety-first tactics of previous weeks will now be replaced by more aggressive driving in a bid to overhaul the current team leaders.
- It was going to be an extremely tall order for any side to overhaul us.
- Needing to finish four places ahead of Paul Foerster and Kevin Burnham, the British pair were unable to overhaul their American rivals.
- They remain the only county with a mathematical chance, albeit wafer-thin, of overhauling the leaders.
- Phelps aims to overhaul Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals.
- With our young players we would have a great base to build on and could overhaul our rivals.
Synonyms overtake, pass, get past, go past, go by, go faster than, get ahead of, pull ahead of, outdistance, outstrip
nounˈōvərˌhôlˈoʊvərˌhɔl A thorough examination of machinery or a system, with repairs or changes made if necessary. a major overhaul of environmental policies Example sentencesExamples - Doctors at Tasmania's public hospitals have been campaigning for a major overhaul of the system.
- The family law system requires nothing less than a major overhaul if it is to meet the changing demands of society.
- They can only be honestly confronted by a thorough overhaul of the system the minister will be asked to control.
- A new report charges that Ontario's food safety system needs a major overhaul.
- They have been told to consider plans for a major overhaul of the committee system, in a bid to make that more effective.
- A way out of the current impasse lies less in a thorough overhaul of the Constitution than in a public awakening to the need to strengthen citizens' participation in politics.
- If Indonesia wants to have an internationally competitive workforce, a major overhaul of its educational system is only the first step in a long process that lies ahead.
- Now the courts are forcing a thorough overhaul of that old order.
- In 1994, the concerns over the system of DNA testing resulted in a major overhaul of the way profiling was carried out.
- The office's performance needed a thorough overhaul, he said, including the way it dealt with the problem of illegal immigration.
- As part of a huge upgrading program in Old Cairo, these historic places of prayer are being given a thorough overhaul.
- Sixty-one percent of women, versus 45 percent of men, say that the healthcare system in America today needs a major overhaul.
- In the EU, there were two major overhauls in agricultural policies in 1992 and in 1999.
- Now his comment comes as many Immigration and Customs officials are calling for a major overhaul of our border security system.
- Is a major overhaul of the security system justified?
- Sent this book by someone with less commercial muscle, his editors would unquestionably have demanded a thorough overhaul.
- It may, at long last, lead to a major overhaul of a system of which, as it stands currently, we should be thoroughly ashamed.
- The upgrade, which will include a major overhaul and rebuilding of the plant, is expected to take 18 months.
- The North Kerry area is to be included in a new national pilot scheme which will see a major overhaul of the schools' building system.
- There is also bad news on the way for young drivers, with a major overhaul planned for the provisional licence system.
Origin Early 17th century (originally in nautical use in the sense ‘release rope tackle by slackening’): from over- + haul. |