carry-over

What persists forward

Carry-over is something that persists from one period, situation, or context into another.

A budget carry-over is unspent money transferred to the next fiscal year.

Habits can be carry-overs from childhood: Her fear of dogs is a carry-over from being bitten as a kid.

The verb form is carry over: We'll carry over these items to next week's agenda.

accounting

balance

Steadiness or amount owed

  • ledgerFinancial record book
  • bookkeepingRecording financial transactions systematically
  • debitSubtraction from account

credit · reconciliation · adjustment · deficit · surplus · accrual · rollover · fiscal · carryforward · deduction

continuation

persistence

Continuing despite difficulty

sustainment · endurance · maintenance · preservation · legacy · inheritance · holdover · remnant · lingering · residual

transfer

conveyance

Transfer of property rights

portage · relocation · transmission · passage · movement · shift · bridging

residue

remnants

What stays after most goes

surplus · excess · leftover · traces · vestiges · hangover · overage · carryback

Opposites
temporal persistence

carry-overexpiration

End of validity

termination · discontinuation · lapse · cessation · cutoff

resource utilization

carry-overexhaustion

State of utter depletion

depletion · spending down · expiration · termination · drawdown

novelty vs. continuation

carry-overfresh start

Opportunity to restart unburdened

new beginning · clean slate · new issue · first-time · original

Family

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