overnights

Noun

overnight (plural overnights)

1. An item delivered or completed overnight.
   • Have you looked at the overnights yet?
2. An overnight stay, especially in a hotel or other lodging facility.
   • Some will also have to work less coveted schedules like overnights and weekends just to start building their career and demo tape.Vault Career Guide to Journalism and Information Media (page 70)
3. (in plural) Viewership ratings for a television show that are published the morning after it is broadcast, and may be revised later on.
   • Word spread that Barney was on his way out to the location and that the Nielsen overnights had been terrific, or why else would he come.2000, Dorothy C. Swanson, Story of Viewers For Quality TV: From Grassroots to Prime Time
4. (obsolete) The fore part of the previous night; yesterday evening.
   • Pardon me, madam:
     If I had given you this at overnight,
     She might have been o'erta'enc. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

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