COST OVERRUN

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Excess of cost over budget

Example:

the cost overrun necessitated an additional allocation of funds in the budget

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("cost overrun" is a kind of...):

cost (the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor)

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