Usually means: Preliminary communications or musical introductions.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. overtures: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overtures: Merriam-Webster
  3. overtures: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overtures: Collins English Dictionary
  5. overtures: Vocabulary.com
  6. Overture's, Overtures, overtures: Wordnik
  7. overtures: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. overtures: Wiktionary
  9. overtures: Dictionary.com
  10. overtures: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Overtures: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. overtures: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overtures: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overtures: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overtures: Medical dictionary

(Note: See overture as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (overture)

noun:  (obsolete) An opening; a recess or chamber.
noun:  (obsolete) Disclosure; discovery; revelation.
noun:  (often in plural) An approach or proposal made to initiate communication, establish a relationship etc.
noun:  (Scotland) A motion placed before a legislative body, such as the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
noun:  (music) A musical introduction to a longer piece of music or a dramatic work (such as a play, an opera, or a motion picture).
verb:  (intransitive) To make overtures; to approach with a proposal.
adjective:  (heraldry, nonstandard) Overt, that is, disclosed.
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