overtime

/ˌoʊvərˈtaɪm/

/ˈʌʊvətaɪm/

Other forms: overtimes

Overtime is the amount of time you work beyond your regular hours. If your boss asks you to work over 40 hours one week, that's overtime and you should demand extra pay.

You can use this word as a noun or an adjective, as in overtime pay or overtime hours. At some workplaces, working overtime earns you more than the normal hourly salary. In other cases, full time employees are expected to work overtime without any extra pay. In sports, overtime is when play goes longer than the usual time — more than nine innings in a baseball game, or more than a twenty-minute half in basketball, for example.

Definitions of overtime

1. noun

   work done in addition to regular working hours
   type of:

   work time

   a time period when you are required to work
2. noun

   playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie
   synonyms: extra time

   antonyms:

   regulation time

   (sports) the normal prescribed duration of a game

   types:

   extra innings

   overtime play until one team is ahead at the end of an inning; e.g. baseball

   overtime period

   a period of overtime play to resolve a tie; e.g. basketball

   tiebreaker

   overtime play in order to break a tie; e.g. tennis and soccer

   sudden death

   (sports) overtime in which play is stopped as soon as one contestant scores; e.g. football and golf

   type of:

   period, period of time, time period

   an amount of time
3. adverb

   beyond the regular time
   “she often has to work overtime”