(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.
Retrenchment
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of retrenching; as, the retrenchment of words in a writing.
(n.) A work constructed within another, to prolong the defense of the position when the enemy has gained possession of the outer work; or to protect the defenders till they can retreat or obtain terms for a capitulation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The axe has fallen again at Australia’s research agency, the CSIRO , with another 75 researchers retrenched across the organisation’s future manufacturing, agriculture and digital productivity programs.
(2) With fiscal retrenchment likely after next year's election, the MPC could well be in this for the long haul.
(3) "My position is that increases the value of our assets," he added, referring to the provision of local content and advertising opportunities as newspaper groups in particular retrench.
(4) And can retrenchment be done in such a way that it is clearly in line with the progressive values of a social democratic party?
(5) In scientific terms, a panel of concluding discussants (Drs Kendell, Torrey, and Waddington) were in some measure of agreement that genetics, particularly molecular genetics, appears to be experiencing a period of retrenchment, while epidemiology is experiencing something of a renaissance.
(6) HSBC has insisted it remains committed to China , even as it continued its retrenchment from insurance by selling off its 15.6% stake in Chinese insurer Ping An for $9.4bn (£5.8bn).
(7) Even at the end of this fourth retrenching year, in this scenario we'd be less than half way there in spending-cuts terms, with 60% of the pain still to come.
(8) It was the suspicion in the markets that a rainbow coalition of the progressive left would break under the strain of pushing through politically unpopular fiscal retrenchment that explained tonight's markets rally.
(9) It undermines confidence and causes consumers to retrench, which actually weakens the economy.
(10) Even if the single currency remains intact some €1.3tn of credit could be sucked out of the system as banks retrench to their home markets, unwinding years of financial integration, the Credit Suisse analysis warns.
(11) "The NUS has retrenched back into the old narrative that there is a hard-left and moderates, and that we have to do everything we can to marginalise them.
(12) At BP he came in to the refining and chemical division after the Texas City fire and masterminded a huge retrenchment with thousands being taken off the oil company's payroll, including those at Grangemouth in Scotland.
(13) Grand promises of Paris climate deal undermined by squalid retrenchments Read more I’m talking to Howard Bamsey, who I’ve encountered at many of these events – he was Australia’s lead negotiator in Kyoto in 1997 when the protocol was agreed as well as the special envoy on climate change in Copenhagen in 2009.
(14) "While consumers are increasingly cutting back on their spending out of necessity, but it is also evident that many consumers are also retrenching out of choice, reflecting their heightened concerns about the economy and jobs."
(15) In reviewing the public mental health services of 11 California counties during a period of fiscal retrenchment, we found several common trends: a greater focus on the severely mentally disabled; an increase in utilization of hospital-based care, residential treatment, day treatment, and case management services; and a decrease in the capacity of traditional outpatient services.
(16) This article describes practical steps in managing organizational retrenchment in nursing.
(17) One- and 5-minute Apgar scores were 8 or more in all, and umbilical acid-base values were within normal limits in all of them, though the base deficit in group AD was significantly lower than that in group M. Atropine premedication makes it possible to retrench the ephedrine dosage without any harmful effect on either mother or fetus, and ephedrine infusion makes it easy to cope with changes in maternal blood pressure.
(18) The UK's biggest pay TV provider, buoyed by subscriptions that are still rising in the economic downturn, is in bullish mood, spending money while competitors retrench, as exemplified by its splashy 1980s-style advertising for the drama adaptation of Martina Cole's The Take.
(19) Today, an estimated 1 million public sector workers will walk out in co-ordinated strike action against a retrenchment of workers' rights and a real-terms pay cut that has seen them £2,000 out of pocket since 2010.
(20) My own strong reaction to the novel stemmed from Austen's depiction of society, a world of conspicuous consumption (Sir Walter Elliot cannot stand the idea of retrenching when he mismanages his finances and prefers to leave his house rather than be seen with a footman or a picture less) and his arrogant, good-looking daughter Elizabeth can't be seen without all the props, either.