overtime

Noun · Adverb
US[oh-ver-tahym]/ˈoʊvɚˌtaɪm/3 syllables
Synonyms: extra time

Open English WordNet

Noun (2)

  1. work done in addition to regular working hoursType of work time
  2. 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)

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

Noun worktime

Portuguese
hora extra
Russian
сверхуро́чное вре́мя sverxuróčnoje vrémja
Arabic
عَمَل إِضَافِيّ ʕamal ʔiḍāfiyy
Chinese
加班 jiābān
Japanese
残業 zangyō
29 more languages
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
Esperanto
pluslaboro
Finnish
ylityö
Hebrew
שָׁעוֹת נוֹסָפוֹת sha'ót nosafót
Icelandic
yfirvinna
Norwegian
overtid
Scottish Gaelic
seach-thìm
Serbo-Croatian
prekovremeni rad
Slovak
nadčas
Slovenian
nadure

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

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