overstay

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ stay.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eɪ

Verb

overstay (third-person singular simple present overstays, present participle overstaying, simple past and past participle overstayed)

1. (intransitive) To remain present after the agreed or appropriate departure time.
2. (transitive) To remain present beyond the limits of.

   He overstayed his welcome.

   • 1911, Bram Stoker, chapter 16, in The Lair of the White Worm, London: William Rider and Son, […], →OCLC, page 152:

     "[H]e had overstayed his three-score and ten years by something like twenty years. He must have been ninety, if he was a day!"

   • 2022 August 24, Tassanee Vejpongsa, Grant Peck, “Thai court suspends PM Prayuth pending ruling on term limit”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], retrieved 24 August 2022:

     Thailand’s Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday that Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha must suspend his active duties while the court decides whether he has overstayed his legal term in office.

Derived terms

• overstayal
• overstayer
• overstay one's welcome

Translations

remain present after the agreed or appropriate time

• Bulgarian: заседявам се (zasedjavam se)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 呆得太久 (dāi de tài jiǔ), (overstay one's visa) 逾期停留 (yúqī tíngliú)

• Dutch: langer blijven dan
• Finnish: ylittää aikansa
• Hungarian: (a megengedettnél, az engedélyezettnél) tovább marad, (technical) túltartózkodik
• Maori: nohoroa

Noun

overstay (plural overstays)

1. The act of staying too long.
   • 2011, Richard M. Stana, Overstay Enforcement:

     For example, if USCIS approves a change of status or extension of stay for a nonimmigrant, the alien may be authorized to remain in the country beyond his or her original period of admission without qualifying as an overstay.

Anagrams

• stay over, stayover