Usually means: Passing another vehicle while driving.
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  1. overtaking: Merriam-Webster
  2. overtaking: Collins English Dictionary
  3. overtaking: Vocabulary.com
  4. Overtaking, overtaking: Wordnik
  5. overtaking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. overtaking: Wiktionary
  7. Overtaking, overtaking: Dictionary.com
  8. overtaking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Overtaking: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Overtaking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. overtaking: Rhymezone
  12. Overtaking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. overtaking: FreeDictionary.org
  14. overtaking: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. overtaking: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (overtaking)

▸ noun:  The act by which one thing overtakes another.

Similar:
passing, overriding, overcoming, takeover, conquest, conquering, overhauling, undertaking, supersedence, overhold, more...

Opposite:
yielding, slowing down, falling behind, trailing, following

Types:
passing on left, passing on right, undertaking, overtaking on curve, overtaking on hill, more...

Phrases:
overtaking lane, overtaking body, process of overtaking, more...

Adjectives:
offside, safe, gradual, rapid, such, eventual, awful, frequent, actual, dangerous, complete

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Similar:
passing, overriding, overcoming, takeover, conquest, conquering, overhauling, undertaking, supersedence, overhold, more...

Opposite:
yielding, slowing down, falling behind, trailing, following

Types:
passing on left, passing on right, undertaking, overtaking on curve, overtaking on hill, more...

Phrases:
overtaking lane, overtaking body, process of overtaking, more...

Adjectives:
offside, safe, gradual, rapid, such, eventual, awful, frequent, actual, dangerous, complete

Colors:
    red,     orange,     yellow,     lime green,     electric blue, more...



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