Overtimeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

同意語

• into time (dated)

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈəʊ.və.taɪm/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈoʊ.vɚˌtaɪm/

名詞

overtime (countable and uncountable, plural overtimes)

1. (uncountable) Working time outside of one's regular hours.

   Workers are usually paid extra for working overtime.

   • 1962 February, “Talking of Trains: Signalmen's rewards”, in Modern Railways, page 82:

     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.

2. (uncountable) The rate of pay, usually higher, for work done outside of or in addition to regular hours.
3. (sports, countable, US) An extra period of play when a contest has a tie score at the end of regulation.

   Synonyms: (UK) extra time, OT

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

   • 2025 February 20, Homero De la Fuente, “Canada beats Team USA in overtime thriller to win hockey’s first-ever 4 Nations Face-off championship”, in CNN‎:

     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.

4. A period of time longer than scheduled.
   • 1943 January and February, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 17:

     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.

派生語

派生した語

• ⇒ Cantonese: OT (ou ti)

副詞

overtime (not comparable)

1. Exceeding regular working hours.
2. Beyond the normal or usual extent.
   • 1996, Jon Byrell, Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers, Sydney: Ironbark, page 186:

     He worked his mighty money-spinner overtime.

動詞

overtime (third-person singular simple present overtimes, present participle overtiming, simple past and past participle overtimed)

1. (transitive) To measure something incorrectly, as taking more time than it actually did.
   • 1948, Decisions of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California:

     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 […]

前置詞句

overtime

1. Misspelling of over time.

参考

Further reading

• overtime on Wikipedia.Wikipedia