overtimes

Noun

overtime (countable and uncountable, plural overtimes)

1. (uncountable) Working time outside of one's regular hours.
   • Workers are usually paid extra for working overtime.
2. (uncountable) The rate of pay, usually higher, for work done outside of or in addition to regular hours.
3. (US, countable) 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!

   Synonyms:

   extra time, OT

4. (US) Extra laps after the set race length of laps or time, to allow for a green-white-checkered finish.
5. 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
6. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see over, time.

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