overtime

Meanings

Noun

• Working time outside of one's regular hours.
• The rate of pay, usually higher, for work done outside of or in addition to regular hours.
• An extra period of play when a contest has a tie score at the end of regulation.

Adverb

• Exceeding regular working hours.
• Beyond the normal or usual extent.

Verb

• To measure something incorrectly, as taking more time than it actually did.

Prepositional phrase

• Misspelling of over time

Origin

• over- + time.