Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Time beyond the regular number of hours; too long hours of labor.

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Examples

  • Also 30-40 yrs ago there was more family stability, less overhours working.

    Freakonomics Quorum: What is the Right Way to Think About the Obesity ‘Epidemic’? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

  • For it is an industrious minion, loves to have work to do, and never complains of overhours.

    An Englishwoman's Love-Letters Anonymous

  • Therefore he was in the city, working overhours to pay for Babette's pretty follies down at the seaside.

    The Shape of Fear, and other ghostly tales 1898

  • Therefore he was in the city, working overhours to pay for Babette's pretty follies down at the seaside.

    The Shape of Fear Elia Wilkinson Peattie 1898

  • Adam a great deal of trouble and work in overhours to know what he knew over and above the secrets of his handicraft, and that acquaintance with mechanics and figures, and the nature of the materials he worked with, which was made easy to him by inborn inherited faculty — to get the mastery of his pen, and write a plain hand, to spell without any other mistakes than must in fairness be attributed to the unreasonable character of orthography rather than to any deficiency in the speller, and, moreover, to learn his musical notes and part-singing.

    Adam Bede 2004

  • Seth might gain more by working at separate jobs under Adam’s direction than by his journeyman’s work, and Adam, in his overhours, could do all the

    Adam Bede 2004

  • I only worked at it in overhours — often late at night — and I had to go to Treddleston over an’ over again about little bits o’ brass nails and such gear; and I turned the little knobs and the legs, and carved th’ open work, after a pattern, as nice as could be.

    Adam Bede 2004

  • I did this evening when we were told we must work overhours, for it is thanks to the lateness that I have -- prepare yourself, my girl -- I have found the owner of the watch! "

    A Christmas Posy Mrs. Molesworth 1880

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