overtime
See also: over time
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈoʊvɚˌtaɪm/
Noun
overtime (countable and uncountable, plural overtimes)
- (uncountable) The working time outside of one's regular hours.
- Workers are usually paid extra for working overtime.
- (sports, countable) An extra period of play when a contest has a tie score at the end of regulation.
- That last-second shot ties the game 99-99 and sends it to overtime!
- (uncountable) The rate of pay, usually higher, for work done outside of or in addition to regular hours.
Synonyms
- (extra period of play) extra time
Derived terms
- Chinese overtime
- overtime ban
- overtimer
- over-timer
Translations
worktime
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extra period in sports
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pay for overtime work
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Adverb
overtime (not comparable)
- Exceeding regular working hours.
Verb
overtime (third-person singular simple present overtimes, present participle overtiming, simple past and past participle overtimed)
- (transitive) To measure something incorrectly, as taking more time than it actually did.
- 1948, Decisions of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California
- With automatic timing, overtiming is virtually impossible. However, there are inherent inaccuracies in manual timing of telephone messages which, on the average, tend toward overtiming messages […]
- 1948, Decisions of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California
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