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overhaul

[v. oh-ver-hawl, oh-ver-hawl; n. oh-ver-hawl]

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verb (used with object)

to make necessary repairs on; restore to serviceable condition: My car was overhauled by an expert mechanic.

to investigate or examine thoroughly for repair or revision: Next year we're going to overhaul the curriculum.

to gain upon, catch up with, or overtake, as in a race.

to haul or turn over for examination.

Nautical.

to slacken (a rope) by hauling in the opposite direction to that in which the rope was drawn taut.

to release the blocks of (a tackle).

noun

Also, o·ver·haul·ing. a general examination and repair: The state roads were badly in need of a major overhaul.

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Origin:
1620–30; over- + haul

Related forms

o·ver·haul·er, noun

un·o·ver·hauled, adjective

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Senate last night gave final approval to a budget blueprint that sets the stage for an overhaul of student lending.

He plans to unveil a comprehensive regulatory overhaul by mid-June.

Planning experts say these laws are due for a major overhaul.

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Senate last night gave final approval to a budget blueprint that sets the stage for an overhaul of student lending.

He plans to unveil a comprehensive regulatory overhaul by mid-June.

Planning experts say these laws are due for a major overhaul.

Nothing less than an overhaul of the systems that implement federal policies will suffice.

Sending a man to the moon required an overhaul of the entire space program, involving more powerful rockets and new spacecraft.

Darpa's pocket-sized biospecimen gizmos would overhaul the entire process.

Universities recruit professors worldwide in ambitious overhaul.

Singapore's unique brand of capitalism needs an overhaul.

Your goal is to overhaul each city district by completing a wide range of projects.

It is increasingly being considered for the much needed overhaul of the central grids.

She is also leading a major and necessary overhaul of the nation's fishing policy.

Past efforts by presidents to overhaul big-time college athletics have rarely resulted in significant changes.

The law orders up two reports on regulatory overhaul.

To help consumers understand their cars' fuel costs and environmental impacts, fuel efficiency labels have gotten an overhaul.

Now scientists have taken this body-image overhaul a step further.

It suggests that a fundamental overhaul of the review process is called for.

Unfortunately such an overhaul of the system is not likely to occur.

The fact that a complete overhaul of banking regulation is now really starting to bite is another.

In the attempt to make work pay, there will be a thorough overhaul of the tax and benefit systems.

The signs are that this will merely tinker with the system, not give it the radical overhaul it needs.

The broader overhaul of welfare has barely begun, and will be complex and costly.

For a start, he wants to overhaul the framework within which standards are set.

Lancaster, today presented a comprehensive overhaul of the city's building code to.

Colleges remain on sidelines as students fight off bankers' plan to overhaul popular program.

Of these, an overdue overhaul of overgenerous pensions has always had enormous potential for sparking a clash with the trade.

The overhaul resulted in a spacious family-friendly ground floor, complete with a large entry that's anything but formal.

Users could completely overhaul the machine's interface.

The historic overhaul introduces for the first time the presumption of innocence for defendants, among other reforms.

Overhaul all the districts by completing a wide range of projects in this.

The medical industry is in need of an overhaul right now and until that.

The whole process of managing employee performance and providing feedback has been in need of an overhaul for some time.

Some of the main ways the overhaul might affect those who currently have health insurance and those who do not.

Several groups are now considering ways to overhaul accreditation.

But it takes years for the companies that make the silicon chips to overhaul their strategies.

And they're taken out and given a complete overhaul on a regular basis.

Instead of championing climate change as the sole reason to overhaul energy generation pair it to geopolitical issues.

Airbus suffered through major financial problems that necessitated a complete operational overhaul at the company.

Ten years after the overhaul of the welfare system, the implications are still rippling through policy and politics.

Many are having to overhaul their product lines because of the growing concern of consumers and governments about obesity.

The underlying premise of this article that the structure of scientific funding in this country needs a overhaul is correct.

Shapiro, saying a broad overhaul of the agency is needed on a wide array of.

Japan should kick-start growth and overhaul the tax code.

The top priority for the owners as talks progress is an overhaul of the system of basing pay rates on a deckhand position.

There have already been several attempts to overhaul the system.

The tax system, too, would undergo a radical overhaul.

It gives new powers to the prime minister and parliament and inaugurates a much-needed overhaul of the judiciary.

Bureaucratic, multilayered planning laws do need an overhaul.

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World English Dictionary

overhaul

—vb
1.	to examine carefully for faults, necessary repairs, etc
2.	to make repairs or adjustments to (a car, machine, etc)
3.	to overtake

—n
4.	a thorough examination and repair

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Word Origin & History

overhaul

1626, from over + haul (q.v.), originally nautical, "pull rigging apart for examination," which was done by slackening the rope by pulling in the opposite direction to that in which it is pulled in hoisting. The noun is attested from 1826. Replaced overhale in sense of "overtake" (1793).

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