Usually means: Exceeding budget, time, or resources.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. overruns: Merriam-Webster
  2. overruns: Collins English Dictionary
  3. overruns: Vocabulary.com
  4. Overruns, overruns: Wordnik
  5. overruns: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. overruns: Wiktionary
  7. overruns: Dictionary.com
  8. overruns: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. overruns: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. overruns: Legal dictionary
  2. overruns: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overruns: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (overrun)

verb:  (transitive) To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively.
verb:  (transitive) To infest, swarm over, flow over.
verb:  (transitive) To run past; to run beyond.
verb:  (transitive) To run past the end of.
verb:  (intransitive) To continue for too long.
verb:  (printing) To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page.
verb:  (transitive) To go beyond; to extend in part beyond.
verb:  (transitive) To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
noun:  An instance of overrunning.
noun:  The amount by which something overruns.
noun:  (aviation) An area of terrain beyond the end of a runway that is kept flat and unobstructed to allow an aircraft that runs off the end of the runway to stop safely.
noun:  (food) Air that is whipped into a frozen dessert to make it easier to serve and eat.
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