overstay
[oh-ver-stey]
- to stay beyond the time, limit, or duration of; outstay: to overstay one's welcome.
- Finance. to remain in (the market) beyond the point where a sale would have yielded the greatest profit.
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Origin of overstay
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Examples from the Web for overstay
Contemporary Examples
Some overstay their visas and some, he says, possibly arrive pregnant.
Get Ready to Start Hearing About ‘Executive Amnesty for Anchor Babies’Eleanor Clift
November 19, 2014
By often-cited estimate, fully one-quarter of illegal immigrants arrive legally, but then overstay their visas.
Once there are “boots on the ground,” they might get caught in the crossfire and overstay their welcome.
The senior official also worries that the Americans could overstay their welcome.
Still, he says, “you can overstay your welcome at the pinnacle.”
Historical Examples
If you overstay the limit and cannot return, you will be decontaminated just as we must be when we return to our own people.
Shock TreatmentStanley Mullen
I married Rashborough because it was the best thing that offered, and I did not want to overstay my market.
The Slave of SilenceFred M. White
You will wonder perhaps why I "overstay," since I frankly admit that I'm "fed up" with too much scenery and too much information.
Set in SilverCharles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
Mr. Crisparkle sat with his watch in his hand for about the same period, lest he should overstay his time.
The Mystery of Edwin DroodCharles Dickens
Mutual recriminations were absent, although they knew that it was a serious matter to overstay shore leave.
A Lively Bit of the FrontPercy F. Westerman
overstay
- to stay beyond the time, limit, or duration of
- finance to delay a transaction in (a market) until after the point at which the maximum profit would have been made
- NZ to stay in New Zealand beyond (the period sanctioned by the immigration authorities or the period of a visitor's permit)
- overstay one's welcome or outstay one's welcome to stay (at a party, on a visit, etc), longer than pleases the host or hostess
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