Overhead

//ˈəʊvəˌhɛd//

Synonyms for "overhead" (92 found)

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Closest matches (19)

operating expense above abovestairs airward aloft aloof budget budget items burden of expenditure carrying charge ceiling charge charges command processing overhead time cost

Noun(4 words)

budget items command overhead command processing overhead command processing overhead time

Strong matches (27)

Related words (46)

Related word relations

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8 relation types

More general

10 entries

ceiling disbursal disbursement disc space disk space expense foil processing time return transparency

Antonyms

2 entries

subsurface surface

Synonyms

5 entries

command processing overhead time disk overhead operating expense overhead projector viewgraph

derived

16 entries

command processing overhead time computational overhead| digital overhead nonoverhead overhead bin overhead bridge restaurant overhead cam overhead crane overhead engine overhead fan overhead kick overhead line overhead press overhead restaurant overhead squat overhead transparency overhead valve

has context

9 entries

accounting business computing juggling nautical seafaring soccer tennis transport

is a

2 entries

ceiling return

part of

1 entries

cabin

related to

34 entries

above activity aircraft bus ceiling compartment contribute cost data directly effort electric expenditure expense head image

Showing 16 of 34 words.

Translations

77 translations across 24 languages.

Bulgarian

2 entries

горен adj (located above)
отгоре adv (above one's head)

Catalan

1 entries

despeses generals adj (of, or relating to the operating expenses of a business)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

頭上 /头上 adv (above one's head)
間接費用 /间接费用 noun (expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided)

Danish

1 entries

profitmargin noun (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)

Esperanto

1 entries

supre adj (located above)

Finnish

4 entries

pään päällä oleva adj (located above)
yläpuolella oleva adj (located above)
yläpuolinen adj (located above)
pään päällä adv (above one's head)

French

1 entries

frais généraux noun (expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided)

German

4 entries

darüber adj (located above)
oben adj (located above)
Überkopf adj (located above)
darüber adv (above one's head)

Hungarian

4 entries

fej fölötti adj (located above)
felső adj (located above)
fenntartási adj (of, or relating to the operating expenses of a business)
fenti adj (located above)

Indonesian

3 entries

beban taklangsung noun (expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided)
biaya tambahan noun (expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided)
biaya umum noun (expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided)

Irish

2 entries

lastuas adj (located above)
lastuas adv (above one's head)

Italian

2 entries

costi di gestione noun (expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided)
inefficienza noun (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)

Japanese

2 entries

オーバーヘッド noun (expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided)
間接費 noun (expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided)

Latin

1 entries

insuper adv (above one's head)

Malay

1 entries

اوۏرهيد noun (expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided)

Māori

4 entries

i runga adj (located above)
ki runga adj (located above)
o runga adj (located above)
utu whakahaere noun (expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided)

Norwegian

1 entries

overhead noun (data or steps of computation used only to facilitate computation)

Polish

1 entries

narzut noun (data or steps of computation used only to facilitate computation)

Portuguese

1 entries

overhead noun (expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided)

Russian

2 entries

наверху́ adv (above one's head)
накладны́е расхо́ды noun (expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

fiksni trošak adj (of, or relating to the operating expenses of a business)
hladni pogon adj (of, or relating to the operating expenses of a business)

Spanish

3 entries

gastos generales adj (of, or relating to the operating expenses of a business)
gastos generales noun (expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided)
sobrecargado noun (system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses)

Swedish

4 entries

nickning adj (kicked over one's own head)
ovan adj (located above)
ovanifrån adj (located above)
omkostnad noun (expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided)

Turkish

4 entries

başın üstünde adj (located above)
genel giderlerle ilgili adj (of, or relating to the operating expenses of a business)
başdan yukarıda adv (above one's head)
havada adv (above one's head)

Sample sentences

20 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The helicopter is hovering overhead.

Source: tatoeba (33895)

A couple of swallows are flying overhead.

Source: tatoeba (39806)

Should I put this bag in the overhead compartment?

Source: tatoeba (60656)

It's in the overhead compartment.

Source: tatoeba (64339)

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.