overtime

See also: over time

English

Etymology

over- +‎ time.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoʊvɚˌtaɪm/

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. (sports, countable, US) An extra period of play when a contest has a tie score at the end of regulation. (British: extra time.)

   That last-second shot ties the game 99-99 and sends it to overtime!

Synonyms

• (extra period of play) extra time

Derived terms

• Chinese overtime
• overtime ban
• overtimer
• over-timer

 

Translations

worktime

• Catalan: hora extra f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加班 (zh) (jiābān)

• Czech: přesčas (cs) m
• Finnish: ylityö (fi)
• French: heures supplémentaires (fr) f pl
• German: Überstunden (de) f pl
• Greek: υπερωρία (el) f (yperoría)
• Hungarian: túlóra (hu)
• Italian: straordinari (it) m pl
• Japanese: 残業 (ja) (ざんぎょう, zangyō)
• Korean: 시간외 근무 (sigan-oe geunmu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: overtid m or f

  Nynorsk: overtid f

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• Polish: nadgodzina (pl) f
• Portuguese: hora extra f
• Romanian: ore suplimentare f pl
• Russian: сверхуро́чное вре́мя n (sverxuróčnoje vrémja), сверхуро́чная рабо́та f (sverxuróčnaja rabóta)
• Scottish Gaelic: seach-thìm f
• Spanish: tiempo de más m, overtime m
• Swedish: övertid (sv) c
• Thai: การทำโอที
• Turkish: fazla mesai
• Vietnamese: tăng ca

pay for overtime work

• Finnish: ylityökorvaus (fi)
• German: Überstundenzuschlag m, Überstundenvergütung f, Zuschlag (de) m, Überstundenlohn m, Mehrarbeitszuschlag m
• Hungarian: túlóra (hu)
• Indonesian: uang lembur (id)
• Korean: 시간외 수당 (sigan-oe sudang)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: overtidsbetaling m or f, overtidstillegg n

  Nynorsk: overtidsbetaling f, overtidstillegg n

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• Portuguese: hora extra f
• Romanian: ore suplimentare plătite f pl
• Russian: сверхуро́чные (ru) pl (sverxuróčnyje)
• Spanish: tiempo de más m, pago overtime m, overtime
• Swedish: övertidsersättning c, övertidstillägg n

extra period in sports

• Arabic: وَقْت إِضَافِيّ m (waqt ʔiḍāfiyy)
• Armenian: լրացուցիչ ժամանակ (lracʻucʻičʻ žamanak)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加時／加时 (zh) pl (jiāshí), 加时 (zh) (jiāshí)

• Finnish: jatkoaika (fi)
• French: prolongation (fr) f
• German: Verlängerung (de) f; (in American sports like basketball also) Overtime (de) f
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• Japanese: オーバータイム (ōbātaimu), 延長戦 (えんちょうせん, enchōsen)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: overtid m or f

  Nynorsk: overtid f

• Portuguese: prolongamento (pt) m, prorrogação (pt) f
• Romanian: prelungire (ro) f
• Russian: оверта́йм (ru) m (overtájm), дополни́тельное вре́мя n (dopolnítelʹnoje vrémja)

Adverb

overtime (not comparable)

1. Exceeding regular working hours.
2. Beyond the normal or usual extent.
   • 1996, Jon Byrell, Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers, Sydney: Ironbark, page 186:

     He worked his mighty money-spinner overtime.

Translations

exceeding regular working hours

• Czech: přesčas (cs)
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• Spanish: a destajo (es)

Verb

1. (transitive) To measure something incorrectly, as taking more time than it actually did.
   • 1948, Decisions of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California

     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 […]

Prepositional phrase

overtime

1. Misspelling of over time.