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spreadover

spreadover noun: the variable arrangement of duties and breaks within overall work periods of fixed duration.

Noun

spreadover (countable and uncountable, plural spreadovers)

  1. (employment) The variable arrangement of duties and breaks within overall work periods of fixed duration.
    • The eight-hour day spreadover was imposed on the Scottish miners in December of last year following upon the most open and flagrant betrayal by the Miners' Federation […]1931, W. Gallacher, “The Scottish Miner's Strike”, in The Communist Review, volume 3, page 345
    • The total duration from sign-on to sign-off is called the spreadover of a shift. Many of the scheduling rules are dependent on ranges of spreadover lengths. Often, scheduling methods would simply cost a shift by its spreadover since actual wage cost is usually proportional to spreadover.2004, Joseph Y-T. Leung, Handbook of Scheduling

Forms of spreadover

pluralspreadovers

Questions about spreadover

What does spreadover mean?
Spreadover means the variable arrangement of duties and breaks within overall work periods of fixed duration.
What part of speech is spreadover?
Spreadover is a noun.
What is the plural of spreadover?
The plural of spreadover is spreadovers.

Words near spreadover in the dictionary

  1. spreadingness
  2. spreadings
  3. spreadly
  4. spreadmart
  5. spreadmarts
  6. spreadover
  7. spreadovers
  8. spreads
  9. spreads it on thick
  10. spreads like wildfire
  11. spreads one's legs

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