1. Application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation
   "The company hoped for carry-over of training when moving employees to a new software system";
   - transfer, transfer of training
    
2. [Brit] The accumulated and undivided profits of a corporation after provision has been made for dividends and reserves
   "The company's carry-over allowed for future investments";
   - carry-forward [Brit, Cdn]

1. Transfer or persist from one stage or sphere of activity to another
   "The company's success carried over into the new fiscal year"
    
2. (accountancy) transfer from one time period to the next
   "They carried over the unused budget to the next fiscal year";
   - carry forward
    
3. Transport from one place or state to another
   "Adam would have been carried over into the life eternal"
    
4. Hold over goods to be sold for the next season
   "The store carry overd winter coats to next year";
   - hold over

Derived forms: carrying over, carries over, carried over, carry-overs

Type of: acquisition, balance, die hard, endure, hold on, keep, learning, persist, prevail, run, shift, transfer, transport

Encyclopedia: Carry-over