Overtime

Quick meaning: Overtime is a noun meaning (uncountable) Working time outside of one's regular hours.

Meaning

(uncountable) Working time outside of one's regular hours.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) The rate of pay, usually higher, for work done outside of or in addition to regular hours.
2. (sports, countable, US) An extra period of play when a contest has a tie score at the end of regulation.
3. A period of time longer than scheduled.
4. Exceeding regular working hours.
5. Beyond the normal or usual extent.
6. (transitive) To measure something incorrectly, as taking more time than it actually did.
7. Misspelling of over time.

Example Sentences

He worked his mighty money-spinner overtime.

Workers are usually paid extra for working overtime.

That last-second shot ties the game 99-99 and sends it to overtime!

Nor is it good for the name of the railway industry that skilled men should have to put in so much overtime to keep up financially with the Joneses in other walks of life.

Word Forms

• overtimes
• overtiming
• overtimed

Synonyms for overtime

Depending on context, synonyms include OT.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include supplementary, supplemental, additional, further, incremental, extra.

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