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Yes, overrun is playable

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"Overrun" Definition

noun

An act of overrunning.
Printing A run over and above the quantity ordered by a customer.
The amount by which actual costs exceed estimates.
The amount by which something overruns.
The exceeding of estimated costs for product development and manufacture covered by contract.

verb-transitive

Printing To print (a job order) in a quantity larger than that ordered.
Printing To rearrange or move (set type or pictures) from one column, line, or page to another.
Printing To set too much type for.
To overflow: The river overran its banks.
To run beyond or past; overshoot: The plane overran the end of the runway.

verb-intransitive

To go beyond the normal or desired limit.
To run over; overflow.

verb

To defeat decisively and occupy the positions of.
To invade and occupy or ravage.
To spread or swarm over.
To run or go beyond or past.
To readjust (set type) by shifting letters or words from one line into another.

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