carry forward

1. 1.

   transfer from one time period to the next

   Synonymscarry over

   Broadertransfer

   accountancy

Questions about carry forward

What does carry forward mean?

carry forward means "transfer from one time period to the next".

What is another word for carry forward?

Close synonyms include carry over. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carry forward a common word?

carry forward is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.