COST OVERRUN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cost overrun mean? 

• COST OVERRUN (noun)
  The noun COST OVERRUN has 1 sense:

1. excess of cost over budget

  Familiarity information: COST OVERRUN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COST OVERRUN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Excess of cost over budget

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Context example:

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

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

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