Definition of "carryover" [carryover]

• Something transferred or extended from an earlier time or another place: a showing of new fashions as well as carryovers from last spring; a carryover of good will from the previous meeting. (noun)
• Accounting A sum transferred to a new column, page, or book relating to the same account. (noun)

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• "I think it was still a lot of carryover from the game but I think they're excited about the future and excited about the team."
• "In fact one of the early comments out of the White House was that the "no fly" screening process was a carryover from the Bush administration."
• "In general the books represent a carryover from the hieroglyphic codices in which the Maya recorded historical events and matters of religion, art, astronomy and the like."