carry forward

verb

1. accounting to transfer (a balance) to the next page, column, etc
2. Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)carry over tax accounting to apply (a legally permitted credit, esp an operating loss) to the taxable income of following years to ease the overall tax burden

noun

1. Also calledcarry-over tax accounting an amount carried forward

Example Sentences

Kennan wrote, “I feel that I was in some strange way to carry forward [his] work.”

From The Daily Beast

“Both were originally viewed by Washington as the indispensable men to carry forward American policy,” Greenway said.

From The Daily Beast

But I also know that sanctions without outreach—condemnation without discussion—can carry forward only a crippling status quo.

From The Daily Beast

The force of such idealization helped to carry forward the human race to a new milestone on the path of progress.

From Project Gutenberg

This hazardous expedition was intrusted to Generals Sherman and Porter, to carry forward.

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I do not conceive and carry forward a plan in the one breath.

From Project Gutenberg

To carry forward a work of such magnitude to anything like completion must therefore be rather wished for than expected.

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Clumsily they carry forward the torch of the sun, until such time as the nation sees fit to take it up.

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