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overall Adjective

— An overall effect, strategy, picture, etc., is one that covers everything but may not go into detail. The play has many Christian elements, but the overall effect is not necessarily Christian.

overall Adverb

— If you look at something overall, you look at the whole of it. Despite losing a few games, the team achieved greater successes overall than in previous years. Overall the book works well. Fewer people came out locally, but there was an overall greater response at a national level.

overall Noun

— An overall is a large, loose protective coat. — Overalls are pants with a front that comes up to your chest and straps over your shoulders. — Overalls are a loose protective trouser and shirt in one.

mean Verb

— A word means something when the word expresses the same idea as the other something. Slay means kill. Both of them mean to make dead.

mean Adjective

— When you are a mean person, you are not nice. The boys who hit you were very mean.

mean Noun

— The mean is a measure of the average of a list of numbers. The sum total of the numbers divided by how many numbers in the list. The mean of the numbers 2,3,4 is 3. (2+3+4)/3 = 9/3 = 3.

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This does not mean an increase in overall taxation, but simply a substitution in each country of a pollution (carbon) tax for some current taxes.