verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
overstay your visa (= stay longer than you are allowed to )
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Two women in the group had overstayed their visas.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
welcome
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I had been there almost two hours, and had perhaps overstayed my welcome .
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It would be senseless to overstay their welcome .
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Some parts of her book overstay their welcome .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
outstay/overstay your welcome
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Either way, the free sections often seem to outstay their welcome .
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I had been there almost two hours, and had perhaps overstayed my welcome .
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I never overstayed my welcome and always dreamed up some excuse if any of them suggested meeting me outside working hours.
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It would be senseless to overstay their welcome .
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Some parts of her book overstay their welcome .
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We complain if a band stays away too long; we complain if they outstay their welcome .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The INS is looking for tourists who have overstayed their visas.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the absent soldiers who had overstayed their leave mostly came from Ireland, he felt it wasn't his fault.
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I had been there almost two hours, and had perhaps overstayed my welcome.
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I never overstayed my welcome and always dreamed up some excuse if any of them suggested meeting me outside working hours.
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It would be senseless to overstay their welcome.
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New passports were supplied to people who had overstayed their permission to stay in Britain.
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Of these the two largest groups were those who had overstayed their visas and those who entered the country illegally.
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Some parts of her book overstay their welcome.
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They overstay their time, but may not be genuine non-returners.