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a rate of pay for overtime work equal to one and one half times the regular hourly wage.

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Origin of time and a half

First recorded in 1885–90

Words nearby time and a half

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The vision—it had been an instantaneous flash after all and nothing more—had left his mind completely for the time.
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I hate to be long at my toilette at any time; but to delay much in such a matter while travelling is folly.
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British Dictionary definitions for time and a half

time and a half

noun

the rate of pay equalling one and a half times the normal rate, often offered for overtime work

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time and a half

A rate of pay for overtime work that is one and one-half times higher than the regular hourly wage, as in I don't mind working Sunday so long as I get time and a half. This expression uses time in the sense of “the number of hours worked.” [c. 1885]

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