Definition of Overtime period

1. Noun. A period of overtime play to resolve a tie; e.g. basketball.

Generic synonyms: Extra Time, Overtime

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overtime Period

overthrows
overthrust
overthrust fault
overthrusts
overthwart
overthwartly
overthwartness
overtight
overtighten
overtightened
overtightening
overtightens
overtilde
overtildes
overtime
overtime period (current term)
overtimed
overtimes
overtimid
overtiming
overtip
overtipped
overtipping
overtips
overtire
overtired
overtiredness
overtires
overtiring
overtitle

Literary usage of Overtime period

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hours, Earnings, and Conditions of Labor of Women in Indiana Mercantile by Marie Louise Obenauer, Royal Meeker, Frances Wadsworth Valentine, Indiana Commission on Working Women (1914)
"The working hours in the overtime period immediately preceding Christmas as ... WORKING HOURS, IN overtime period BEFORE CHRISTMAS, REPORTED BY WOMEN ..."

2. Commission Leaflets by Legal dept, American Telephone and Telegraph Company (1919)
"Standard Initial Period and overtime period. Where The Initial Rate Is The Initial Period Is The overtime period /> $0 05 5 minutes 5 minutes 10 5 minutes 3 ..."

3. Government Control of the Telegraph and Telephone Systems by United States Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (1919)
"Standard initial period and overtime period: Where ... at the above initial rates the initial period is three minutes and the overtime period is one minute. ..."

4. Experience with Trade Union Agreements--clothing Industries: Research Report by National Industrial Conference Board (1921)
"Employers shall file with the Conference Committee a record of overtime immediately upon the cessation of such overtime period. 10. ..."

5. Women as Munition Makers: A Study of Conditions in Bridgeport, Connecticut by Amy Hewes, Henriette Rose Walter (1917)
"... of overtime because increased fatigue affects the production not alone of the actual overtime period, but of the regular working hours as well. ..."

6. Cost Accounting to Aid Production: A Practical Study of Scientific Cost by George Charter Harrison (1921)
"... overtime is a general one and the decision as to which work is to be done in the regular time and which in the overtime period more or less fortuitous. ..."

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