overtime

overtime

—n
1.	a. work at a regular job done in addition to regular working hours
	b. (as modifier): overtime pay
2.	the rate of pay established for such work
3.	time in excess of a set period
4.	(US), (Canadian) sport extra time

—*adv*
5.	beyond the regular or stipulated time

—vb
6.	(tr) to exceed the required time for (a photographic exposure)

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overtime

"time above the regular hours of work," 1846, from over + time. Sporting sense first attested 1921, in an ice hockey context.

Example sentences

Examples include some purchases of raw materials and workers' overtime payments.

Overtime, another species has the potential for intelligent

developments--primates.

The law also requires employers to maintain time records and prescribes methods

for computing overtime pay.

Suppose a company is incurring high costs for overtime work.

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"Although every organized patriarchal religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of mysogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil, the Roman Catholic Church also carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion, and by its use of skillful and wealthy lobbies to prevent legislative change. It is an obscenity—an all-male hierarchy, celibate or not, that presumes to rule on the lives and bodies of millions of women."

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