overtime

Working time outside of one's regular hours.

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.

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.

That last-second shot ties the game 99-99 and sends it to overtime!

Canada’s men’s hockey team defeated the USA 3-2 in overtime Thursday to capture the inaugural 4 Nations Face-Off Championship as the NHL put on a show in the first edition of this midseason international tournament.

A period of time longer than scheduled.

Little need be said about the remainder of the run; the Dumfries-Annan and Annan-Carlisle times are very sharp with such loads, and the driver was just observing them, with nothing in hand, though overtime at stations made us late into Carlisle.

Exceeding regular working hours.

Beyond the normal or usual extent.

He worked his mighty money-spinner overtime.

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

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 […]