overtime

plural overtimes

1. uncountableWorking time outside of one's regular hours.

   Workers are usually paid extra for working overtime.

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   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.

   1962 February, “Talking of Trains: Signalmen's rewards”, in Modern Railways, page 82

2. uncountableThe rate of pay, usually higher, for work done outside of or in addition to regular hours.
3. UScountablehobbiesAn extra period of play when a contest has a tie score at the end of regulation.

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

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   Canada’s men’s hockey team defeated the USA 3-2 in overtime Thursday to capture the inaugural 4 Nations Face-Off Championship as the NHL put on a show in the first edition of this midseason international tournament.

   2025 February 20, Homero De la Fuente, “Canada beats Team USA in overtime thriller to win hockey’s first-ever 4 Nations Face-off championship”, in CNN

   Synonyms: extra time, OT

4. UScountableuncountablehobbiesExtra laps after the set race length of laps or time, to allow for a green-white-checkered finish.
5. countableuncountableA period of time longer than scheduled.

   Little need be said about the remainder of the run; the Dumfries-Annan and Annan-Carlisle times are very sharp with such loads, and the driver was just observing them, with nothing in hand, though overtime at stations made us late into Carlisle.

   1943 January and February, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 17

6. countableuncountableUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see over, time.

1. not comparableExceeding regular working hours.
2. not comparableBeyond the normal or usual extent.

   He worked his mighty money-spinner overtime.

   1996, Jon Byrell, Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers, Sydney: Ironbark, page 186

present singular third person overtimes · participle present overtiming · participle past overtimed · past overtimed

1. transitiveTo measure something incorrectly, as taking more time than it actually did.

   With automatic timing, overtiming is virtually impossible. However, there are inherent inaccuracies in manual timing of telephone messages which, on the average, tend toward overtiming messages […]

   1948, Decisions of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California

1. misspellingMisspelling of over time.