OVERTIME


Meaning of OVERTIME in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

overtime pay (= for extra hours that you work )

Their bosses had to approve any overtime pay.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

excessive

A factor in this was excessive overtime with many signalmen working 7 days a week for a month.

A working culture which allows excessive overtime encourages sub-standard work, and poor inspection.

It hopes to make a fresh attempt to limit excessive overtime , heavily criticised in the report.

unpaid

All bloody unpaid overtime , this job.

Christofferson, however, kept track of his unpaid overtime hours and by June had amassed almost 500.

Recently he has found himself working late in the office, unpaid overtime , trying to get the damned thing right.

Techniques of avoidance, easing strategies, were especially important to prevent unpaid overtime .

working

It looked as if his karma was working overtime .

Soon after I left them, they were working overtime to fulfil a big order, when there was a breakdown.

His brain was working overtime and he just stood there goggling.

His brain was working overtime now.

This means a slight rise in the wages account which is no different than working overtime for cleaning and maintenance of machinery.

Oh, and all border points are on full alert - guards doubled, searchlights on the border working overtime .

Their local maternity unit was working overtime .

■ NOUN

ban

In 1996 a national overtime ban by prison officers sparked off riots in seventeen prisons.

It is thought that a complete overtime ban will go ahead.

An overtime ban started at 7.30am yesterday and will affect the company's factories at Llandudno Junction and Bodelwyddan.

On October 31st, 1983, an indefinite overtime ban was called in protest against pit closures.

pay

They receive no overtime pay , nor do they get any holiday money or sickness benefit.

Would you add in overtime pay when listing your annual salary?

But no: the firm decided instead to eliminate overtime pay for workers at its packaging and distribution center.

Their bosses, who had to approve any overtime pay , wouldn't do it.

As a result, employees who now put in, say, four 10-hour days no longer would earn extra overtime pay .

payment

Cuts in salaries, bonuses and overtime payments have reduced many family-incomes and caused a sharp drop in consumer spending.

Under this scenario, his base grows more slowly, as do his overtime payments .

work

It is not unusual for this kind of person to carry home overtime work and to go to work on holidays.

■ VERB

require

It had set aside $ 24 million to settle claims by former managers that it had failed to pay required overtime .

California law is more stringent, requiring that overtime must be paid to anyone working more than eight hours in a day.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Miller scored 9 of his 23 points in overtime .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Go to No. 16 shed, our big flat store, and ask and if they want overtime .

He said engineers are working overtime to fix the problems.

Is there a policy on the use of overtime ?

It had set aside $ 24 million to settle claims by former managers that it had failed to pay required overtime .

Jaguars quarterback Mark Brunell dislocated a knuckle on his throwing hand late in the fourth quarter of an overtime loss to Pittsburgh.

The overtime and opportunities for easing which court duty affords is often not compensation enough for the stress it involves.

The last two came on the road, in overtime , on consecutive nights.

You worked overtime to finish a project with a drop-dead deadline.

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