Timeline for Can "overtake" be used as a noun?
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| Jun 30, 2018 at 5:54 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Jun 29, 2018 at 18:52 | answer | added | user 66974 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 29, 2018 at 16:39 | comment | added | JonLarby | I agree with WS2. It sounds awful to my British ears and I would only expect it used by someone who has English as a second language. But like "an assist" it will probably fall into common usage in a few more years and we'll all get used to it. | |
| Jun 29, 2018 at 16:31 | comment | added | WS2 | I do not recognise it as idiomatic in Britain, though I'm not an aficionado of motor racing. | |
| Jun 29, 2018 at 16:01 | comment | added | Oliver Mason | If the BBC uses it... Well, word classes in English can be fairly flexible, though it is more common to use a noun as a verb, the opposite is perfectly possible. If you want to avoid this, use eg overtaking manoeuvre. | |
| Jun 29, 2018 at 15:57 | history | asked | user244475 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |