(v. t.) To haul or drag over; hence, to turn over for examination; to inspect; to examine thoroughly with a view to corrections or repairs.
(v. t.) To gain upon in a chase; to overtake.
(n.) Alt. of Overhauling
Example Sentences:
(1) 'Snooper's charter': Theresa May faces calls to improve bill to protect privacy Read more Ken Clarke, the Conservative former home secretary, and Dominic Grieve, the Tory former attorney general, suggested there could be improvements to the new laws that overhaul the state’s surveillance powers.
(2) Campbell said that for the new initiative to succeed there needed to be a fundamental overhaul in the way sports clubs were organised and a determined move to professionalise coaching.
(3) The Volkswagen Group has announced €1bn (£750m) of spending cuts at its core VW division to help pay for a product overhaul following the emissions testing scandal that has rocked Europe’s biggest carmaker.
(4) Maybe he was simply obeying orders, since Gordon Brown is not about to sanction a radical overhaul of the tripartite system of financial regulation he created.
(5) Chelsea might recover under similar circumstances, but I reckon they need a pretty big overhaul.
(6) Today - with the federal election just around the corner - Kevin Rudd plans to share his plans for overhauling Labor’s policy on boat arrivals.
(7) I must also accept that Cameron recruits the best and the brightest, who just happen to be his schoolmates, and that education should be overhauled by a nostalgic zealot who has never taught and dismisses evidence.
(8) The American has not secured a major title since Torrey Pines for the 2008 US Open and, while overhauling Jack Nicklaus's record total of 18 majors was once a matter of "when", it is now very much a case of "if".
(9) Officials revealed that the monarch’s London residence needs a total overhaul to tackle a series of problems common to homes occupied by older people: the palace needs rewiring, new plumbing, asbestos removing, and redecoration inside and out.
(10) This will include extending the use of police-led prosecutions to cut the time the police spend waiting for the Crown Prosecution Service, overhauling the police complaints and disciplinary systems and making changes to the oversight of pre-charge bail.
(11) Under a major overhaul of the system, AS-levels will be separated from A-levels to become a separate qualification.
(12) A video obtained by the Mail on Sunday showing Flowers counting out £300 after being asked for "money for the coke" also sparked calls by Conservative MP Andrew Tyrie for the current system of authorising top bankers to be overhauled.
(13) Administrative Reform Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who is overseeing a civil service overhaul, accepted Tsipras' motion, saying it would give the government an opportunity to prove that its parliamentary majority is strong.
(14) When Mitchell, 41, took over in 2011 he carried out a huge overhaul, paying particular attention to discipline.
(15) The government’s tax discussion paper released earlier in the year advocated for an overhaul of the superannuation system , saying the current system will put pressure on the economy in the long run.
(16) Last week Stan Myerson, Northern & Shell joint managing director, revealed that the company is looking at overhauling its payments to independent producers making shows for Channel 5 , introducing more of a performance-related element to programme deals.
(17) At this time, the agency has signed a formal agreement with the Division of Federal Occupational Health to request continued assistance with "overhauling" their program.
(18) While this might boost the number of women executives in the short term, it could hamper progress in the long-run by preventing "a mass systemic overhaul" of UK corporate life.
(19) Sustained funding has overhauled the tube while Crossrail, Europe’s biggest infrastructure project, promises to spur regeneration in far-flung corners of town.
(20) The financial management systems and procedures have been overhauled to ensure proper accountability for public money," the DfE said.
Revision
Definition:
(n.) The act of revising; reexamination for correction; review; as, the revision of a book or writing, or of a proof sheet; a revision of statutes.
(n.) That which is made by revising.
Example Sentences:
(1) Under a revised deal most people are now being vetted on time, but charges for the service have had to rise from £12 and free vetting for volunteers, to £28 for a standard disclosure and £33 for an advanced disclosure.
(2) Potential revisions of the scale, as well as cautions for its use in clinical applications on its present form are discussed.
(3) In addition, a new dosage concepts has been introduced on the basis of the effective dose on the lines of the recommendations by the IRCP; as a result, the definitions of radiation protection areas and of dosage limit values had to be revised and reworded.
(4) Cameron, who faces intense political pressure from the UK Independence party in the runup to the 2014 European parliamentary elections, believes voters will need to be consulted if the EU agrees a major treaty revision in the next few years.
(5) Here we compare this revised technique to the classical sucrose density centrifugation procedure.
(6) The data were grouped to determine differences between the experimental and the newly revised formats of the GRE-A measure, in addition to any differences among programs.
(7) They also questioned why George Osborne and the Treasury failed to realise there was a potential issue earlier in the calculation process – pointing to recent upwards revisions of post-1995 gross national income by the UK’s own statistics watchdog.
(8) The Met Office has had to revise its forecast on previous occasions.
(9) The revised diagnosis was pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma for one case and pleomorphic leiomyosarcoma for the other cases.
(10) As a contribution to the proposed revision of the DSM-III-R category "Psychological Factors Affecting Physical Condition" for DSM-IV, this article reviews the history of how the relationship of psychiatric illness to neurological illness has been understood with respect to depression.
(11) Fixation is more difficult to achieve after revision for infection because of the inferior quality of the bone.
(12) The component was revised in forty-five patients, revision and advancement of the trochanteric component was done in twenty-five patients, and impinging bone or cement was removed from six patients; a combination of these procedures was done in nineteen patients.
(13) The decision came after Japan’s revised rules on the transfer of arms and defence technology, Suga said.
(14) With these stringent criteria the rejection rate was 71.0% for group A records, 58.5% for group B and 44.5% for group C. The proportions of records with peak quality (no missing leads or clipping, and grade 1 noise, lead drift or beat-to-beat drift) were 4.5% for group A, 5.5% for group B and 23.0% for group C. Suggested revisions in the grading of technical quality of ECGs are presented.
(15) The United States is in the process of adopting the revised recommendations of the ICRP.
(16) Functional gain was measured by the Revised Level of Rehabilitation Scale (LORS-II).
(17) Percutaneous balloon catheter dilation appears to be an effective method of treating stenosis in autogenous vein grafts and a useful alternative to surgical revision.
(18) The unreliable items were then deleted, and the revised scales were assessed in Study 2.
(19) These will be put forward for another round of consultation when the government publishes its revised national energy policy statements.
(20) Physicians are urged to reject involvement in rationing as inconsistent with their role as patient advocates and to support technology assessment, fee revisions, and more stringent self regulation as ways to discourage malpractice suits.