In a sentence
Six example sentences with overtime, each labelled with its topic.
The night nurse logged nine hours of overtime that week, covering shifts the flu outbreak had emptied.
Medicine
Payroll flagged the warehouse manager for approving overtime every Saturday while the department still missed its shipping targets.
Business
The crew billed forty hours of overtime to finish the atrium glazing before the building inspection on Monday.
Architecture
The statute requires overtime to be paid at time and a half beyond forty hours, whatever the contract says.
Law
Firms lean on overtime before hiring, so a rise in extra hours often signals that new jobs will follow.
Economics
The launch was saved by overtime, six engineers working every evening for a month to close the bug list.
Technology
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