carry-over

Questions about carry-over

What does carry-over mean?

carry-over means "application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in carry-over?

carry-over has 3 syllables and divides as car-ry-o-ver under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for carry-over?

Close synonyms include transfer, transfer of training, carry-forward. 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-over a common word?

carry-over 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.