overtime
/ˈəʊ.və.taɪm/US/ˈoʊ.vɚˌtaɪm/
overtime noun: working time outside of one's regular hours. Also the misspelling of over time.
Noun
overtime (countable and uncountable, plural overtimes)
- Working time outside of one's regular hours.
- Workers are usually paid extra for working overtime.
- 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
- The rate of pay, usually higher, for work done outside of or in addition to regular hours.
- 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!
- 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
- Extra laps after the set race length of laps or time, to allow for a green-white-checkered finish.
- 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.1943 January and February, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 17
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see over, time.
Adverb
overtime (not comparable)
- Exceeding regular working hours.
- Beyond the normal or usual extent.
- He worked his mighty money-spinner overtime.1996, Jon Byrell, Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers, Sydney: Ironbark, page 186
Verb
overtime (third-person singular simple present overtimes, present participle overtiming, simple past and past participle overtimed)
- 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 […]1948, Decisions of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California
Also used as
overtime is also the misspelling of over time.
overtime meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
overtime in Hindi
- ओवरटाइम, ओवरटाईम
overtime in Tamil
- ஓவர் டைம்
overtime in Marathi
- ओव्हरटाइम
overtime in Bengali
- ওভারটাইম
More languagesFewer languages
- overtime in Telugu
- ఓవర్ టైం, ఓవర్ టైమ్
- overtime in Malayalam
- ഓവർടൈം, ഓവർടൈം സമയം
- overtime in Kannada
- ಓವರ್ ಟೈಮ್, ಓವರ್ ಟೈಂ
- overtime in Punjabi
- ਓਵਰਟਾਈਮ, ਓਵਰਟਾਇਮ
- overtime in Gujarati
- ઓવરટાઇમ, ઓવરટાઈમ
- overtime in Odia
- ଓଭରଟାଇମ୍, ଓଭରଟାଇମ
- overtime in Nepali
- ओभरटाइम
- overtime in Arabic
- وَقْت إِضَافِيّ waqt ʔiḍāfiyy
- overtime in Indonesian
- uang lembur
- overtime in Thai
- การทำโอที
- overtime in Vietnamese
- tăng ca
Examples of overtime in a sentence
- He took the swing shift for he could get more overtime.
- You need to relax, all this overtime and stress is making you tense.
- After having to work overtime without being paid, I quit my job.
Synonyms of overtime
Forms of overtime
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | overtimes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | overtimes |
| present participle | overtiming |
| past participle | overtimed |
| past | overtimed |
Origin of overtime
From over- + time.
Words formed from overtime
Phrases with overtime
Questions about overtime
- What does overtime mean?
- Overtime means working time outside of one's regular hours.
- What is overtime in Hindi?
- Overtime in Hindi is ओवरटाइम, ओवरटाईम. See Overtime meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is overtime?
- Overtime can be a noun, an adverb or a verb.
- How do you pronounce overtime?
- Overtime is pronounced /ˈəʊ.və.taɪm/ (UK).
- What is the plural of overtime?
- The plural of overtime is overtimes.
Words near overtime in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: overtime (page history and authors); overtime (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); overtime (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); overtime (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); overtime (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); overtime (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); overtime (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); overtime (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); overtime (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); overtime (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); overtime (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); overtime (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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