(n.) Time beyond, or in excess of, a limit; esp., extra working time.
Example Sentences:
(1) As more care was shifted to outpatient services overtime, overall costs dropped, despite marked increases in the cost of outpatient medications such as zidovudine.
(2) Los Angeles were relentless in their vicious pursuit of a game-tying goal on Wednesday, bidding to send Game 4 into overtime.
(3) Unfortunately for New Mexico State, and fortunately for everyone who had work the next day, there would be no double overtime.
(4) And just a few games shy of making history, the Warriors blew a 17-point lead and fell to the Minnesota Timberwolves – another team that didn’t even come close to making the playoffs – after forcing the game into overtime.
(5) It completed its primary 100-day science mission last month and was on overtime.
(6) I have to put a roof over my son’s head.” Junior doctors will be balloted to decide whether to strike over a radical new contract imposed on them by the Department of Health, which redefines their normal working week to include Saturday and removes overtime rates for work between 7pm and 10pm every day except Sunday.
(7) Chicago's Patrick Kane scored on a backhand at 9:40 of overtime to secure victory over Minnesota.
(8) 4.34am BST Rangers 2-2 Kings, 7:09, first overtime Richards throws it in, St Louis a shot and a save by Quick!
(9) One of our readers, who prefers not to be mentioned, has the answer to the question, can anyone remember a double overtime playoff game?
(10) Around 50 suburban Chicago police departments and sheriff’s offices assisted, racking up more than $300,000 in overtime and other costs, according to an analysis that the Daily Herald newspaper published in early October.
(11) Chosen number one in the 2012 draft as a replacement for Peyton Manning, Luck has already built a reputation as a comeback king, engineering 10 fourth quarter or overtime regular season game winning drives, more than any other quarterback in his first two seasons.
(12) Overtime will only be paid when hours exceed 87 hours a week – 39 more than the maximum allowed under the European working time directive.
(13) A spokesman for the committee said: "There are challenges with calculation of overtime pay and hours, and we are working with the contractor to rectify any non-compliance."
(14) Staff at Countrywide Property Lawyers, the biggest firm of residential conveyancers in the UK, have had to work overtime and weekends to cope with the extra business.
(15) Acknowledging the problems found at the suppliers, Samsung said: "We have identified the need for initiatives to reduce employee overtime as a top priority, and we are researching and developing measures that will eliminate hours beyond legal limits by the end of 2014."
(16) "Many retail jobs required staff to work for 16 hours each week, with overtime payable for any hours worked beyond that.
(17) Overtime” payments have to be fought for and do not compensate for the additional hours worked.
(18) They would try to boost their income, perhaps by doing a bit of overtime or taking a second job, and they would tighten their belts.
(19) #NHLplayoffs #Blackhawks #Kings June 2, 2014 4.05am BST Kings 4-4 Blackhawks, 16:43, 1st overtime Brown wrists a shot but it's deflected!
(20) Ineos's demands include abolishing Grangemouth's final salary pension scheme, freezing wages and scrapping bonuses until 2017 as well as cutting shift allowances, overtime pay, holidays and redundancy terms.
Overwork
Definition:
(v. t.) To work beyond the strength; to cause to labor too much or too long; to tire excessively; as, to overwork a horse.
(v. t.) To fill too full of work; to crowd with labor.
(v. t.) To decorate all over.
(v. t.) To work too much, or beyond one's strength.
(n.) Work in excess of the usual or stipulated time or quantity; extra work; also, excessive labor.
Example Sentences:
(1) The removal of financial penalties for trusts that overwork their doctors would see us lose our only safeguard against unsafe rotas.
(2) The few nurses who remain are exhausted, overworked and demoralised.
(3) The Spaniard’s challenge had been wild and right in front of the overworked official, Craig Pawson.
(4) GPs are overworked and intensely frustrated that they do not have enough time to spend with their patients, especially the increasing numbers of older people with multiple and complex problems who need specialised care.” Most of the GPs who said they would retire were over the age of 50.
(5) Japanese Nurses are overworked and underpaid; many of them leave the profession at about age 25 and get married.
(6) The global economic crisis means there are millions out of work or underemployed while increasing numbers are overworked and struggling to balance work and family life.
(7) The need to protect physicians-in-training from overwork raises issues not only of pragmatism, but also of morality and professionalism.
(8) Overwork, ie, working beyond one's endurance and recuperative capacities, may be a hazard in certain personality types engaged in open-ended occupations.
(9) They also cited concerns about the state executing inmates before appeals were complete and argued that Taylor’s original trial attorney was so overworked that she encouraged him to plead guilty.
(10) Psychosocial factors (overwork, stress, worry) were the most frequently cited causes of MI, with smoking and being overweight or overeating the most frequently cited physical causes.
(11) These aging-like changes seem to occur earlier in chronically stressed, overenlarged, and overworked motor units.
(12) With respect to work, four themes emerged: medical routine, patient centered care, overwork and isolation.
(13) The public backs the doctors, with 62% of the population believing they are overworked and giving that as the biggest cause of medical compensation cases .
(14) Belinda Phipps, chief executive of the NCT, the childbirth and parenting charity, said: "Midwives are being overworked, maternity units are understaffed and as a result parents are suffering."
(15) Meanwhile, Guardian Money has also received an unsigned letter from a group of staff at John Lewis’s London head office that makes allegations about overworked and unmotivated employees.
(16) Its impedance keeps the perilymph motion within a physiological acoustic amplitude quantum level unless the movements are so excessive as in barotrauma and acoustic trauma which would have overworked even the annular ligament of a normal footplate.
(17) Responses indicated that rural GPs were significantly more overworked, had less opportunity for continuing education, had poorer medical facilities, and had less adequate schools for their children than urban GPs.
(18) Hands up, though, who wants to be tended to by an overworked, stressed junior doctor with low morale?
(19) A “perfect storm” is brewing in General Practice as recruitment continues to fall and overworked seniors take early retirement.
(20) Many GPs are so inundated with demands for appointments that they can no longer guarantee to treat patients safely, according to a survey which found that overworked family doctors were feeling increasingly stressed.