English term
India
Your project is in safe hands
Native in: Hindi 
Works in: English to Hindi, Hindi to English
over runs
What is the meaning of over runs?
| 3 +2 | late delivery |
Jenny w
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| 3 +2 | defeated by another company |
orientalhorizon
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| 3 +2 | excess or surplus of produced goods |
Demi Ebrite
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Nov 25, 2008 15:31: NGK changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"
PRO (1): Mariusz Stepien
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late delivery
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Mariusz Stepien
: possible as well
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thanks
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Andrew Mason
: Much more likely than the other suggestions
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thanks Andrew
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Banking,law,commerce,engineering
Native in: Chinese
Works in: English to Chinese, Chinese to English, English, and 1 more.
defeated by another company
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Mariusz Stepien
: possible
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Thank you very much!
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mlfinder
9 hrs
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Thank you very much!
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United States
excess or surplus of produced goods
In the context given, I presume that 'over-runs' means that another contractor produced a surplus of ordered goods, and that the company reporting their sales suffered a cancellation of their order because the customer chose to buy the excess goods (perhaps at a discount?) from that company.
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Note added at 9 hrs (2008-11-25 23:15:41 GMT)
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Examples of overrun products for sale:
http://www.neocorp.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&St...
Alternately, OVERRUNS can also mean that a project went over the projected budget and cost, causing a 'cost overrun' - with more context, the meaning may become more clear.
Example of cost overrun statement:
"By facilitating proven best practices in production and manufacturing, the software helps you to anticipate demand, increase the accuracy of your bill of materials, optimize resource allocation, increase throughput, decrease cost over-runs, reduce inventory storage costs and improve your cash flow."
http://www.business-software.com/erp-solutions/manufacturing...
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Mariusz Stepien
: possible
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Thank you, Mariusz.
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Gary D
: Over runs are from an over production of a line of a product. see explanation above
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Thank you, Gary - I am thinking that it may mean 'cost overrun', but then the text should have stated it with the use of 'cost'. These are the only options I could support.
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