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overtime, n., adv.|ˈəʊvətaɪm|
[over- 19.]
A. n.
a. Time during which one works over and above the regular hours; extra time. Also, payment for work performed in excess of normal hours. Also attrib. overtime ban, industrial action in which the working of overtime is suspended.
[1536Hampton Court Accts., Carpenters workyng their owre tymes and drynkyng tymes uppon thffonte in thchappell.] 1846Swell's Night Guide 42 There are instances of the awful enemy lodging itself here, through some private tailing in overtime. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Over-time, Over-work, extra labour done beyond the regular fixed hours of business. 1861Times 23 July, The grievance seems reduced to the single point of overtime, as it is allowed on both sides, that..10 hours is to be the standard. 1861Sat. Rev. 20 July 60 The loss of the overtime bonus. 1870Rogers Hist. Gleanings Ser. ii. 132 Piecework or overtime labour. 1911Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 26 Apr. 14/5 A conference is to be held..with regard to the demand being made by the seamen for overtime pay. 1916‘Boyd Cable’ Doing their Bit iv. 63 Their haggling over 8d. or 8½d. an hour pay, or Saturday half-holidays, or double overtime for Sunday. 1928F. B. Young My Brother Jonathan iii. iii. 446 Joe Matthews..‘picking up’ six pounds a week, to say nothing of overtime, in Higgins's shell factory. 1952Times 1 Dec. 2/5 (heading) Miners' overtime ban ended. 1968R. Comm. Trade Unions & Employers' Associations Res. Papers No. 9, 82 The negotiations broke down during 1964 and the unions imposed an overtime ban and a work to rule. 1972Times 15 May 17/3 Workers at another Ferranti factory are due to impose the restrictions—an overtime ban, work to rule and boycott of piecework—from today. 1973C. D. Garratt Masterpieces in Steam 128 My visit to Brynlliw was during the overtime ban prior to the miners' strike. 1973Times 4 Dec. 3/6 The miners' overtime ban yesterday went into its fourth week.
b. In sporting contests: extra time added in the event of a draw. N. Amer.
1921Daily Colonist (Victoria B.C.) 15 Mar. 11/1 Overtime game goes in favor of Towers. The Towers Club..defeated the Senators..by 8 goals to 7, the game having to go into overtime to decide the match. 1946Richmond (Virginia) Times-Dispatch 20 Mar. 17/3 His keen floor generalship..built up to a terrific climax—his 55-foot shot in the last two seconds that tied the score at 74–74 and led to the Ram's 82–79 overtime triumph. 1961J. S. Salak Dict. Amer. Sports 315 Overtime, continuance of play after the regulation time for a contest has expired when the score is tied. 1970Washington Post 30 Sept. D 1/7 The Senators..lost two overtime games to the Baltimore Orioles. 1974State (Columbia, S. Carolina) 3 Mar. 2-D/5 Freshman Walter Davis banked in a 35-foot jump shot at the end of regulation time to cap an incredible North Carolina comeback Saturday as the fourth-ranked Tar Heels nipped arch rival Duke, 96–92 in overtime.
B. adv. During extra time; over hours. Also fig.
1873Hamerton Intell. Life i. ii. (1876) 6 She worked over-time. 1894Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. XLI. 5 Sixty hands..working overtime. 1938E. Ambler Cause for Alarm xvi. 262 In that moment my brain worked overtime. 1953A. Huxley Let. 25 Sept. (1969) 685 They are pork manufacturers, with a farm where five thousand sows work overtime eating the garbage of the city of Long Beach and producing fifty thousand piglets per annum. 1971Nature 26 Nov. 179/1 Washington's science policy machinery has been working overtime on plans that could significantly alter relationships between science and government. 1974G. Butler Coffin for Canary i. 9 My tongue had worked overtime at the week-end..talking with my sister. |
