overtime
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Is overtime a Scrabble word?
Word Games
- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of overtime?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) Working time outside of one's regular hours.Examples: "Workers are usually paid extra for working overtime."; "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.Examples: "That last-second shot ties the game 99-99 and sends it to overtime!"Synonyms: extra time, OT
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To measure something incorrectly, as taking more time than it actually did.Examples: "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 […]"
Definition source: Wiktionary