overtime

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   beyond the regular time

   I often have to work overtime as an emergency physician.

2. 2
   noun

   Working time outside of one's regular hours.

   Workers are usually paid extra for working overtime.

3. 3
   noun

   An 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!

4. 4
   noun

   A 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.

5. 5
   adv

   Beyond the normal or usual extent.

   He worked his mighty money-spinner overtime.

6. 6
   verb

   To 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 […]

7. 7
   noun

   work done in addition to regular working hours

8. 8
   noun

   playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie

Etymology

From over- + time.