Usually means: Continue operating at a steady pace.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word tick over:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. tick over: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tick over: Merriam-Webster
  3. tick over: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tick-over, tick-over, tick over: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tick over: Vocabulary.com
  6. tick over: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. tick over: Wiktionary
  8. tick over: Dictionary.com
  9. tick over: Rhymezone
  10. Tick-Over: Britih-American Dictionary
  11. tick over: FreeDictionary.org
  12. tick over: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. tick over: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tick over: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See tick_overs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tick over)

verb:  (intransitive, of an engine) to idle (to run at a slow speed, or out of gear).
verb:  (idiomatic, of, e.g. a process or a business) To run smoothly and without problems.

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