overtime
Noun · AdverbUS[oh-ver-tahym]/ˈoʊvɚˌtaɪm/3 syllables
Synonyms:
extra time
Open English WordNet
Noun (2)
- work done in addition to regular working hoursType of work time
- playing time beyond regulation, to break a tieSynonyms: extra timeType of time period, period of timeKinds tiebreaker, overtime period, extra innings, sudden deathPart of athletic game
Adverb (1)
- beyond the regular time“she often has to work overtime”
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Translations
Noun worktime
- Spanish
- horas extras
- French
- heures supplémentaires
- German
- Überstunden
- Italian
- straordinari
- Portuguese
- hora extra
- Turkish
- fazla mesai
- Russian
- сверхуро́чное вре́мя sverxuróčnoje vrémja
- Arabic
- عَمَل إِضَافِيّ ʕamal ʔiḍāfiyy
- Chinese
- 加班 jiābān
- Japanese
- 残業 zangyō
29 more languages
- Dutch
- overwerk
- Polish
- nadgodziny
- Swedish
- övertid
- Greek
- υπερωρία yperoría
- Korean
- 시간외 근무 siganoe geunmu
- Indonesian
- lembur
- Vietnamese
- tăng ca
- Hungarian
- túlóra
- Portuguese (PT)
- hora extra
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 加班 jiābān
- Albanian
- orë shtesë
- Catalan
- hora extra
- Czech
- přesčas
- Danish
- overarbejde
- Esperanto
- pluslaboro
- Estonian
- ületunnitöö
- Finnish
- ylityö
- Georgian
- ზეგანაკვეთური სამუშაო zeganaḳveturi samušao
- Hebrew
- שָׁעוֹת נוֹסָפוֹת sha'ót nosafót
- Icelandic
- yfirvinna
- Latvian
- virsstundas
- Lithuanian
- viršvalandžiai
- Norwegian
- overtid
- Romanian
- ore suplimentare
- Scottish Gaelic
- seach-thìm
- Serbo-Croatian
- prekovremeni rad
- Slovak
- nadčas
- Slovenian
- nadure
- Welsh
- goramser
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
O′ver·time′ noun
1. Time beyond, or in excess of, a limit; esp., extra working time.
2. Sports An extra period of time provided to play a game, beyond the end of the normal period allowed for the game, for the purpose of resolving a tie score; as, the team won in overtime.
sudden death overtime an overtime{2} in which the first team to score wins the game; — contrasted with normal overtime{2}, which is a fixed period of time during which either team may score as often as they can.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors