overtime
- working time before or after one's regularly scheduled working hours; extra working time.
- pay for such time (distinguished from straight time).
- time in excess of a prescribed period.
- Sports. an additional period of play for deciding the winner of a game in which the contestants are tied at the end of the regular playing period.
- during overtime: to work overtime.
- of or for overtime: overtime pay.
- to give too much time to (a photographic exposure).
Origin of overtime
Examples from the Web for overtime
Contemporary Examples of overtime
Clinkscales is still a cop, and made more than $100,000 in salary and overtime last year.
Chicago’s Cops Don’t Even Get Investigated for Shooting People in the BackJustin Glawe
December 5, 2014
The CAP paper estimates that if current trends continue unabated, overtime pay will disappear entirely by 2026.
Anotha Day Of Wrk Jst Getn Off… Bossman Alrdy Say He Liking Me and My Wrk Skills And Me Asking Him For Overtime.
He caught eight passes for 71 yards and a touchdown in an overtime loss to the Buffalo Bills last weekend.
Not surprisingly, the average American puts in a month and a half of overtime each year.
Life’s Essentials: Serious Work, Serious Fun.July 21, 2014
Historical Examples of overtime
This did not include the amount that might be made by overtime work.
Negro Migration during the WarEmmett J. Scott
It wouldn't do his record any good with Trench, but it should put an end to the overtime.
Police Your PlanetLester del Rey
We will reckon the time from now, with overtime at time and a half.
Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense NovelsStephen Leacock
A good part of the time they spend growling on the subject of overtime.
Working With the Working WomanCornelia Stratton Parker
She called out, “Will they pay time and a half for overtime?”
Working With the Working WomanCornelia Stratton Parker
overtime
- work at a regular job done in addition to regular working hours
- (as modifier)overtime pay
- the rate of pay established for such work
- time in excess of a set period
- sport, US and Canadian extra time
- beyond the regular or stipulated time
- (tr) to exceed the required time for (a photographic exposure)