overstay

[ oh-ver-stey ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

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.

overstay

/ ˌəʊvəˈsteɪ /

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
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

First recorded in 1640–50; over- + stay ¹

Some overstay their visas and some, he says, possibly arrive pregnant.

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.”

If I overstay my time I do not give myself worry—I know that she will understand that there are contingencies.

And if they do not, one does not overstay one's visa in the Soviet Union.

In three hours the vessel, not to overstay the bounds of neutral hospitality, returned to the ocean.

It will be readily believed that George Bertram did not overstay the three months.

If you overstay the limit and cannot return, you will be decontaminated just as we must be when we return to our own people.

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