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Overtime vs During - What's the difference?

overtime | during |

As a noun overtime

is (uncountable) the working time outside of one's regular hours.

As an adverb overtime

is exceeding regular working hours.

As a proper noun during is

(rare).

overtime

Noun

  • (uncountable) The working time outside of one's regular hours
  • Workers are usually paid extra for working overtime .
  • (sports, countable) An extra period of play when a contest has a tie score at the end of regulation.
  • That last-second shot ties the game 99-99 and sends it to overtime !
  • (uncountable) The rate of pay, usually higher, for work done outside of or in addition to regular hours.
  • Synonyms

    * (extra period of play) extra time

    Derived terms

    * over-timer, overtimer

    Adverb

    (-)
  • Exceeding regular working hours.
  • during

    English

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • For all of a given time interval.
  • * 1661 , , The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
  • During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
  • *
  • They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katrina G. Claw
  • , title= Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.}}
  • At any time or period within a given time interval.
  • * , chapter=4
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.}}

    Verb

    (head)