Overtime vs Pension - What's the difference?
overtime | pension |
(uncountable) The working time outside of one's regular hours
(sports, countable) An extra period of play when a contest has a tie score at the end of regulation.
(uncountable) The rate of pay, usually higher, for work done outside of or in addition to regular hours.
Exceeding regular working hours.
A gratuity paid regularly as benefit due to a person in consideration of past services; notably to one retired from service, on account of retirement age, disability or similar cause; especially, a regular stipend paid by a government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers; sometimes passed on to the heirs, or even specifically for them, as to the families of soldiers killed in service.
A stated regular allowance by way of patronage or subsidy, e.g. to meritorious artists, or the like.
Accommodations or the payment for accommodations, especially at a boarding house or small hotel in Europe.
A boarding house or small hotel, as in continental Europe, which offers lodging and certain meals and services.
(dated) A boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
(archaic) A wage in active service
As nouns the difference between overtime and pension
is that overtime is (uncountable) the working time outside of one's regular hours while pension is guesthouse.As an adverb overtime
is exceeding regular working hours.overtime
English
(wikipedia overtime)Noun
- Workers are usually paid extra for working overtime .
- That last-second shot ties the game 99-99 and sends it to overtime !
Synonyms
* (extra period of play) extra timeDerived terms
* over-timer, overtimerAdverb
(-)pension
English
Noun
(en noun)- ''Pensioners depend on their pension to pay the bills
- A pension had somewhat less to offer than a hotel; it was always smaller, and never elegant; it sometimes offered breakfast, and sometimes not (John Irving).