Well Over

Definition: Well Over

Well Over

Verb

1. Flow or run over (a limit or brim).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Well Over

Redundancy

Verb: superabound, overabound; know no bounds, swarm; meet one at every turn; creep with, crawl with, bristle with; overflow; run over, flow over, well over, brim over; run riot; overrun, overstock, overlay, overcharge, overdose, overfeed, overburden, overload, overdo, overwhelm, overshoot the mark; (go beyond); surcharge, supersaturate, gorge, glut, load, drench, whelm, inundate, deluge, flood; drug, drug the market; hepatize.

Crosswords: Well Over

Production. Subchasers. Now well over seventy, this old ship fitter came out of retirement to help build subchasers at a Southern shipyard. At the pipe-bending job he is doing, and at other jobs, he has helped the yard win the coveted Navy "E". Credit: Library of Congress.

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If therefore they must have one to rule them, as government is hardly to be avoided amongst men that live together; who so likely to be the man as he that was their common father; unless negligence, cruelty, or any other defect of mind or body made him unfit for it? But when either the father died, and left his next heir, for want of age, wisdom, courage, or any other qualities, less fit for rule; or where several families met, and consented to continue together; there, it is not to be doubted, but they used their natural freedom, to set up him, whom they judged the ablest, and most likely, to rule well over them. (Second Treatise of Government)

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He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he had been giggling and sniggering almost continuously for well over half an hour now.

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Business

Domestic production currently accounts for well over 55 percent of domestic market demand. (references)

In this market, McDonald’s, the second largest hamburger chain, hopes to expand from its current 64 restaurants to well over 100 in the next two to four years. (references)

Furthermore, the triple jump of out of pocket healthcare payments (20% in 1978, 26% in 1986, 42% in 1993, and well over 50% today), also contributes to a tenfold-plus rise in private health spending compared to a threefold increase in government spending. (references)

Civil Liberties

Tunisia

Recent estimates place the number of satellite dishes (which have been legal since 1996) in the country at well over 200,000. The Government regulates their sale and installation. (references)

Economic History

Nigeria

Foreign reserves total well over $10 billion. (references)

Switzerland

Together they account for well over half of Swiss export revenues. (references)

Human Rights

Chile

Since 1992, the program has distributed well over $87 million (57.8 billion pesos). (references)

Zimbabwe

Every defendant has the right to a lawyer of his choosing; however, well over 90 percent of defendants in magistrates' courts do not have legal representation. (references)

Brazil

This has led to well over 400 juveniles being held in a facility that was built to hold 62. The Public Prosecutor for Children and Youth compared the situation to concentration camps. (references)

Political Economy

COSTA RICA

The three state-owned commercial banks account for well over two-thirds of the country's demand deposits. (references)

MALAYSIA

For example, 6.8 percent have tariff rates between 16 and 20 percent, 16.9 percent have tariff rates that exceed 20 percent, and many lines have rates well over 100 percent. (references)

Trade

Mexico

To be eligible to import well over 400 different items, including agricultural products, textiles, chemicals, electronics, and auto parts, Mexican importers must apply to the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit (Hacienda) and be listed on a special industry sector registry. (references)

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Bulgarian 

преливам (brim over, burst, fade, flow, infuse, melt, merge, overbrim, overfill, overflow, overrun, run over, simmer over, slop over, transfuse), преизпълвам се. (various references)

Finnish

runsaasti 10 puntaa (a good £ 10, well over £ 10), hyvän joukon yli 100 (well over a hundred). (various references)

German

wohl über. (various references)

Greek 

πλημμυρίζω (flood, inundate, overflow). (various references)

Pig Latin

ellway overay.(various references)

Russian 

значительно больше (far more). (various references)

Turkish

taşmak (boil over, brim over, flow, get over, gush, overbrim, overflow, pour forth, pour out, run over, slop over, spill over, swell, swim). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: rewove, wolver.

-3 letters: elver, level, lever, lover, lower, revel, rowel, vowel, vower.

-4 letters: ever, ewer, leer, levo, lore, love, lowe, orle, over, reel, role, roll, rove, veer, vole, vrow, weel, weer, well, were, wore, wove.

-5 letters: eel, ell, ere, eve, ewe, lee, lev, low, ole, ore, owe, owl, ree, rev, roe, row, vee, voe.