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Meaning overhaul meaning

What does overhaul mean?
Definitions in simple English

overhaul Noun

— An overhaul is a major repair, remake, renovation, or revision. The engine required a complete overhaul to run properly.

overhaul Verb

— If you overhaul something, you make major changes or repairs to it.

overhaul

— verb make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to You should overhaul your car engine overhaul the health care system — verb (= pass) travel past The sports car passed all the trucks — noun periodic maintenance on a car or machine it was time for an overhaul on the tractor — noun (= renovation) the act of improving by renewing and restoring they are pursuing a general program of renovation to the entire property a major overhal of the healthcare system was proposed

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overtake repair service pass renovation rebuild remodel refit fix transform revolutionize revamp restore reorganize renovate renew remould redo redevelopment reconstruct overhauling modernize modernise inspection and repair inspection catch up with catch up wave off upkeep unkeep turnover job transmute transfigure top overhaul through repair third line maintenance survey surpass standard periodical inspection sift short-circuit see again scrutinize rework revise revisal review return reshape resee

Conjugation overhaul conjugation

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overhaul · verb

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Movie subtitles

WE'LL OVERHAUL IT FIRST THING IN THE MORNING.
Listen, you gotta bring me your hack for the 6-month overhaul.
I only have one point left on my license. I need it to get the cab a 6-month overhaul.
Starboard diesel needs an overhaul.
Quit bitching and overhaul the starboard engine.
I wanna see these gauges rocking, because you just had an overhaul.
Alright sailors, overhaul the vessel, make her ready for sea, shabba!
Overhaul her!
Matt, with major repairs and a complete overhaul maybe Sea Tiger could be put back in commission. - A functioning Navy yard might do it. - Sir.
IF YOU CAN GIVE ME MAXIMUM SPEED FOR 1 2 MORE HOURS. CAPTAIN, THESE ENGINES NEEDED AN OVERHAUL TWO MONTHS AGO.
Need someone to overhaul the engine tank?
Overhaul the gear!
To correct the fault will require an overhaul of the entire computer system and a minimum of three weeks at a starbase.
We were due for an overhaul months ago.
Matt, with major repairs and a complete overhaul maybe Sea Tiger could be put back in commission.
CAPTAIN, THESE ENGINES NEEDED AN OVERHAUL TWO MONTHS AGO.
To correct the fault will require an overhaul of the system.
What I need is a complete overhaul.
And the sports car needs an overhaul.
Overhaul.
An overhaul is expensive.
The Enterprise is spending a week undergoing a maintenance overhaul at Starbase 1 2.
The Enterprise remains at McKinley Station, undergoing an overhaul following the Borg incident.
Time for an overhaul.
Most systems were changed at the last overhaul.
Ain't a ship hereabouts could overhaul her.
To correct the fault will require an overhaul of the entire computer system, a minimum of three weeks at a starbase.
It keeps going wrong all the time. It merely needs an overhaul, Jamie, just like any piece of machinery.
You need a complete overhaul!
Must remember to overhaul those tracers.
No, it is recommended that a further overhaul of the glycolene ballast channels be carried out.
It badly needs an overhaul.
Not to mention a new drive-systems regulator, a Freon activator and of course a complete scan-systems overhaul.
I went to a rejuvenation clinic and got a whole natural overhaul.
Can't you overhaul him, captain?
I'm off for a little overhaul.
Hold on to your lug nuts it's time for an overhaul.
Transducers require an overhaul.

News and current affairs

Those institutions that survived will hold a stronger market position than ever, and they will resist a systematic overhaul.
If Brazil is to sustain strong and stable economic growth, the central bank will need an overhaul.
Even so, scaling-up multilateral support will require a massive overhaul of international finance.
We now realize even the most sophisticated market players were clueless about the new financial instruments that emerged, and no one now doubts that the financial industry needs an overhaul.
This is extraordinarily difficult given the long transition period needed to overhaul the world's energy infrastructure, including not only power plants, transmission lines, and transport systems, but also homes and commercial buildings.
A thorough overhaul of compensation structures must be an important element of the new financial order.
Many countries - including the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland - run large budget deficits and need to implement medium-term reforms to make their pension systems sustainable and to overhaul overly generous social security systems.
Angela Merkel's poor showing in Germany's recent election has now put into cold storage any hope of a serious overhaul of the country's famously rigid economy.
Germany's economy needs an overhaul.
In any case, one thing seems certain: in the absence of a sweeping overhaul, the UN may quickly follow in the footsteps of other institutional relics of the Cold War, such as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and NATO.
In fact, the failure of economists' models to forecast the current crisis will mark the beginning of their overhaul.
The first implication of such a massive expansion, is that there has to be a major overhaul of the Union's political and decision-making institutions.
PARIS - In the early phases of the financial crisis, it was fashionable to argue that the United States' system of regulation needed a fundamental structural overhaul.
Under President Roh, South Korea's domestic politics and relations with the US and North Korea will require an almost total overhaul.
But the new structure that he has imposed on the Commission implies a radical overhaul of how things are done in Brussels.
These require Ukraine to overhaul its judiciary and law enforcement, and ensure greater adherence to democratic norms.
The new regulation should be blocked, at least until the Commission commits to put forward a serious proposal for the overhaul of the institutional setting of European competition policy.
Finally, the welfare state needs a serious overhaul.
However, for China to succeed, higher investment in research and development, together with a fundamental overhaul of the educational system, is essential.
These emotional ties, combined with the usual bureaucratic love of the status quo, are the real cause of China's failure to overhaul its North Korea policy.
Without an overhaul of the entire judicial system, any government measures or societal pressure are not going to make much of a difference.
Koizumi had relied on the bureaucrats to implement his reforms, but he did so at the price of postponing an overhaul of the civil service, which became a poisoned chalice that he passed on to Abe.
Indeed, one key lesson of the financial crisis is that an overhaul of executive compensation must be high on the policy agenda.
This vision, of course, entails an overhaul of the Asian security structure, with a drastically reduced role for the United States.
This means that it will need to overhaul its state-owned firms and the financial sector so that resources can flow to the most productive investment projects.
Though this is slowly starting to change, there is a growing need for a rapid overhaul.
Regardless of whether that promise is realistic, many consider her candidacy important for maintaining democratic continuity, whereas Ollanta Humala proposes to overhaul the political system by drafting a new constitution.
The need to overhaul the international monetary and financial system was one of the basic lessons of the global financial crisis.

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