Overhead

Adjective

 * 1) located above, especially over the head
 * Place your luggage in the overhead bins.
 * 1)  of, or relating to the operating expenses of a business
 * They tried to reduce overhead costs.
 * 1)  Kicked over one's own head.

Noun

 * 1)  The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
 * 2)  The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
 * 3)  Any cost or expenditure (monetary, time, effort or otherwise) incurred in a project or activity, which does not directly contribute to the progress or outcome of the project or activity.
 * 4)  Wasted money.
 * 5)  A smash.
 * 6)  The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel
 * 7)  The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.
 * 8)  data or steps of computation that is only used to facilitate the computations in the system and is not directly related to the actual program code or data being processed. E.g. network overhead is the header data that is required to route and transport data over network; fork overhead is the additional time and memory cost of creating and managing new processes within operating system.
 * 9)  An overhead throw.

Adverb

 * 1) above one's head;in the sky
 * Birds flying overhead.

Noun

 * 1)  An overhead projector.
 * 2)  A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency.

Verbs for Overhead
augment—; charge to—; cover—; cut—; lighten—; meet—; —ascends; —descends; —mounts; —staggers; —swamps.

Thesaurus
above, abovestairs, airward, aloft, aloof, budget, budget items, burden of expenditure, carrying charge, ceiling, charges, cost, cost of living, cost-of-living allowance, cost-of-living index, costs, direct costs, disbursals, distributed costs, eaves, elevated, expenditures, expense, expense account, expenses, general expenses, high, high up, housetop, in the air, in the clouds, indirect costs, labor costs, lantern, liabilities, maintenance, material costs, on high, on stilts, on the peak, on tiptoe, operating costs, operating expense, outlay, over, overhead, penthouse, plafond, prime cost, raised, replacement cost, ridgepole, roof, roof garden, roof-deck, roofage, roofing, roofpole, rooftop, rooftree, shingles, skylight, skyward, slates, straight up, swindle sheet, tiles, tiptoe, to the zenith, top, unit cost, up, upper, upstairs, upward, upwards

Etymology 2

 * (Sense 1) Abbreviation of overhead projector.
 * (Sense 2)

Adjective

 * Finnish: yläpuolinen,,    (over the head)

Noun

 * Finnish:


 * Japanese: オーバーヘッド, 間接費

Adverb

 * Finnish:, ,  (in the sky)