overtime

See also: over time and over-time

English

Etymology

over- +‎ time.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊ.və.taɪm/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊ.vɚˌtaɪm/

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.

   • 1962 February, “Talking of Trains: Signalmen's rewards”, in Modern Railways, page 82:

     Nor is it good for the name of the railway industry that skilled men should have to put in so much overtime to keep up financially with the Joneses in other walks of life.

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.

   Synonyms: (UK) extra time, OT

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

4. A period of time longer than scheduled.
   • 1943 January and February, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 17:

     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.

Derived terms

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

 

Translations

worktime

• Bulgarian: извънре́ден труд m (izvǎnréden trud)
• Catalan: hora extra f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加班 (zh) (jiābān)

• Czech: přesčas (cs) m
• Esperanto: pluslaboro sg
• Faroese: yvirtímar m pl
• Finnish: ylityö (fi)
• French: heures supplémentaires (fr) f pl
• Galician: hora extra f
• German: Überstunden (de) f pl
• Greek: υπερωρία (el) f (yperoría)
• Hungarian: túlóra (hu)
• Italian: straordinari (it) m pl, straordinario (it) m
• Japanese: 残業 (ja) (ざんぎょう, zangyō)
• Korean: 시간외 근무(時間外勤務) (siganoe geunmu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: overtid m or f

  Nynorsk: overtid f

• 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: hora extra f, tiempo de más m, overtime m
• Swedish: övertid (sv) c
• Thai: การทำโอที
• Turkish: fazla mesai
• Ukrainian: надуро́чні робо́ти f pl (naduróčni robóty)
• Vietnamese: tăng ca

pay for overtime work

• Finnish: ylityökorvaus (fi)
• Galician: hora extra f
• German: Überstundenzuschlag m, Überstundenvergütung f, Zuschlag (de) m, Überstundenlohn m, Mehrarbeitszuschlag m
• Hungarian: túlóra (hu)
• Indonesian: uang lembur (id)
• Italian: straordinario (it) m
• Korean: 시간외 수당(時間外手當) (siganoe sudang)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: overtidsbetaling m or f, overtidstillegg n

  Nynorsk: overtidsbetaling f, overtidstillegg n

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

extra period in sports

• Arabic: وَقْت إِضَافِيّ m (waqt ʔiḍāfiyy)
• Armenian: լրացուցիչ ժամանակ (lracʻucʻičʻ žamanak)
• Bulgarian: продълже́ние (bg) n (prodǎlžénie)
• Catalan: pròrroga (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加時／加时 (zh) (jiāshí)

• Danish: overtid c
• Finnish: jatkoaika (fi)
• French: prolongation (fr) f
• Galician: prórroga f
• German: Verlängerung (de) f; (in American sports like basketball also) Overtime (de) f
• Icelandic: framlenging (is) f
• Italian: tempi supplementari (it) m pl
• Japanese: オーバータイム (ōbātaimu), 延長戦 (えんちょうせん, enchōsen)
• Korean: 연장전(延長戰) (yeonjangjeon)
• Maori: wā tāpiri
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: overtid m or f

  Nynorsk: overtid f

• Polish: dogrywka (pl) f
• Portuguese: prolongamento (pt) m (Portugal), prorrogação (pt) f (Brazil)
• Romanian: prelungire (ro) f
• Russian: оверта́йм (ru) m (overtájm), дополни́тельное вре́мя n (dopolnítelʹnoje vrémja)
• Spanish: prórroga (es) f, alargue (es) m, tiempo extra m
• Swedish: förlängning (sv) c
• Turkish: uzatma (tr)
• Ukrainian: додатко́вий час m (dodatkóvyj čas), оверта́йм (uk) m (overtájm) (soccer)

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

• Bulgarian: извънре́дно (bg) (izvǎnrédno)
• Czech: přesčas (cs)
• Russian: сверхуро́чно (ru) (sverxuróčno)
• Spanish: a destajo (es)
• Ukrainian: надуро́чно (naduróčno), понаднормо́во (ponadnormóvo)

Verb

overtime (third-person singular simple present overtimes, present participle overtiming, simple past and past participle overtimed)

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.

See also

• long-hours culture