overstay

present singular third person overstays · participle present overstaying · participle past overstayed · past overstayed

1. intransitiveTo remain present after the agreed or appropriate departure time.
2. transitiveTo remain present beyond the limits of.

   He overstayed his welcome.

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   "[H]e had overstayed his three-score and ten years by something like twenty years. He must have been ninety, if he was a day!"

   1911, Bram Stoker, chapter 16, in The Lair of the White Worm, London: William Rider and Son, […], →OCLC, page 152

   Thailand’s Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday that Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha must suspend his active duties while the court decides whether he has overstayed his legal term in office.

   2022 August 24, Tassanee Vejpongsa, Grant Peck, “Thai court suspends PM Prayuth pending ruling on term limit”, in The Washington Post, retrieved 24 Aug 2022

plural overstays

1. The act of staying too long.

   For example, if USCIS approves a change of status or extension of stay for a nonimmigrant, the alien may be authorized to remain in the country beyond his or her original period of admission without qualifying as an overstay.

   2011, Richard M. Stana, Overstay Enforcement