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Overtime   /ˈoʊvərtˌaɪm/   Listen
Overtime

noun
1.
Work done in addition to regular working hours.
2.
Playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie.  Synonym: extra time.



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"Overtime" Quotes from Famous Books



... Joan insisted on travelling third class, and selected a compartment containing a stout woman and two children. Arthur had to be at the works. An important contract had got behindhand and they were working overtime. She and her father dined alone. He made her fulfil her promise to talk about herself, and she told him all she thought would interest him. She passed lightly over her acquaintanceship with Phillips. He would regard it as highly undesirable, she told ...
— All Roads Lead to Calvary • Jerome K. Jerome

... men!" cried Santa Claus, "you have been working very hard. Stop now, and have lunch, for we must work overtime to-night so that we may finish a lot of toys to be taken down to Earth. But now I will give you a little rest, though it is not five ...
— The Story of a Plush Bear • Laura Lee Hope

... off her clothes, in the same mechanical way as she would have done if she had returned exhausted from working overtime at the office. When she put on her night-dress, she knelt down unpremeditatedly upon the floor, held her hands together, and looked up to the ceiling, watching a fly that was braving the cold of winter, as it crept in a sluggish, ...
— Sally Bishop - A Romance • E. Temple Thurston



Words linked to "Overtime" :   tiebreaker, extra innings, period, extra time, work time, regulation time, athletic game, time period, period of time, sudden death



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