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overtime

An overtime is an extra period of time that is played when two teams end regulation (the normal number of periods) tied. With Boston and Miami tied at 86, we're going into overtime! In business, overtime is the time a person is paid to work that is beyond what they normally work. The boss paid Jerry overtime to work a night shift at the warehouse

overtime

work done in addition to regular working hours beyond the regular time she often has to work overtime playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie

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Simple sentences

I'm afraid you have to work overtime.
I won't work overtime today.
I got used to working overtime.
Tom worked overtime every day last week.
I had to work overtime yesterday.
If the boss says you've got to work overtime, then there's no choice but to do so.
He put in ten hours of overtime this week.
He was forced to work overtime.
I'll have to work overtime every day next week.
Today I haven't dealt with the things I wanted to deal with; I'll have to work overtime again.
Tom didn't want to work overtime on Christmas Eve.
Tom worked overtime.
Our boss made us work overtime yesterday.
A young Japanese woman died after working 159 hours of overtime in one month.
The employees demurred at working overtime.
My boss made me work overtime.
He stayed late and worked overtime.
Why do I have to work overtime?
Tom has been working overtime.
Tom is working overtime.
Yesterday I had to work overtime.
I worked overtime.
Tom refused to work overtime.

Movie subtitles

Which is why these lotto machines are working overtime.
I would need guaranteed overtime and per diem when we travel.
Secretary and chauffeur working overtime.
A nice little position with overtime!
We get overtime after 6:00!
Mrs. Gerzeg worked overtime tonight and she'll be coming along pretty soon for her baby.
And there's the overtime!
A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.
You could always give that poor fellow in there a ticket for parking overtime.
Beats me paying you overtime. I'm good.
You'll have to put in some more overtime.
Are you getting paid overtime?
I see a not so young, not so satisfied woman. who hires a guy in off the highway, to do double duty. without even giving him overtime for it.
My class ran overtime.
I had to work overtime. How ya doing?
Oh, let me sit up. I'll sleep overtime tomorrow.
There ain't going to be any overtime.
You know, after 4:00 we pay overtime for these outfits.
Worked overtime so you could catch up on your schedule? - Yes, but.
Must be the overtime.
Your imagination's working overtime.
Don't like it's overtime.
Unless you want us to go on overtime.
You know, a dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.
Sorry, no posing overtime.
Aren't you working that community key overtime?
Divide the men in two shifts, Mac. double pay for overtime!
Besides, we're working overtime tonight.
Six thousand a fortnight, plus family allowance and overtime!
And overtime along with the penalty pay, buys a load of groceries.
I believe I've been putting in overtime.
You working overtime?
After midnight I always feel like I'm doing overtime.
My Joe's gonna be working overtime, and.
Karswell's working his mother overtime.
You on overtime, are you?

News and current affairs

But China's secret policemen are already working overtime nowadays, trying to keep up with China's millions of internet users.
Instead of repealing the law, overtime work is to become easy and relatively cheap.
He exempted voluntary overtime pay from employment tax and shifted some of the burden of labor taxation onto consumption (via a hike in VAT).
Workers face everything from rampant discrimination against older people (those over 35) to physical abuse, lack of bathroom breaks, no overtime pay, and poverty wages.
Yes, there is a 35-hour workweek, but companies can negotiate around the limit by offering to pay more for overtime.
Should the education minister be assessed according to how much overtime work teachers are made to perform?
What Sarkozy has announced so far is his intention to cut income taxes, reform public sector unions, and give tax breaks for overtime work.
The program's flagship measure is the wholesale exemption of overtime hours from social security and income taxes.
Indeed, it might appear disproportionate to give higher priority to encouraging overtime than to stimulating employment.
The first decision was to reduce taxes on overtime work, a measure clearly aimed at increasing the number of hours worked.
Needless to say, as unemployment rose and many other countries decreased hours worked in order to contain job losses, tax reductions on overtime were phased out and the scope of short-time work was enhanced.
There is, however, scant evidence that the real problem holding back investment is excessively high wages (many corporations reduced overtime and benefit contributions, and even cut wages during the recession).
Special courts, tasked with prosecuting terrorism and crimes against the state, have been working overtime to produce charges that are often as absurd as they are baseless.

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