noun [U]
1 time that you spend working at your job after you have worked the normal hours:
to do / work overtime * overtime pay / earnings / hours * The union announced a ban on overtime.
2 the money sb earns for doing overtime:
They pay ｣58 a day plus overtime.
3 (AmE, sport) = EXTRATIME
IDIOMS
be working overtime (informal) to be very active or too active:
There was nothing to worry about. It was just her imagination working overtime.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for overtime is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does overtime appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — overtime appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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