excessive overtime

collocation in English

meaningsofexcessiveandovertime

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excessive
adjective
uk
/ekˈses.ɪv/
us
/ekˈses.ɪv/
too ...
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overtime
noun[U]
uk
/ˈəʊ.və.taɪm/
us
/ˈoʊ.vɚ.taɪm/
extra payment for working after the ...
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(Definition ofexcessiveandovertimefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofexcessive overtime

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The institution of social partnership measures would help to introduce agreed flexible working time and would prevent unions from permittingexcessiveovertime.
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That can be made into a living wage only byexcessiveovertime.
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I understand that there are 1,432 men in the service and that about another 140 are needed to maintain present standards and eleminiateexcessiveovertime.
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The arrangement is the only one practicable at present ifexcessiveovertimeis to be avoided.
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Local authorities cannot sit on labour, so we have to haveexcessiveovertime.
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We have tried to have treatment carried out during the day rather than incurexcessiveovertimepayments.
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I would point out that there is joint machinery in the engineering industry under which cases of allegedexcessiveovertimecan be brought up.
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Failure to be able to recruit, andexcessiveovertime, may have a bearing upon the sickness rate.
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The overall earnings should be based on the total income, after taking account ofexcessiveovertime.
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Excessiveovertimeis now being worked, especially by women and young children.
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There has been growing public awareness and outrage about the restrictive practices, rigid attendance system andexcessiveovertimearrangements of the service.
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As regards men, very littleexcessiveovertimeis worked, but some cases are in existence, and propasals are under consideration for dealing with them.
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Assuming that this extra hour would be a great boon to the working classes, yet we are told that it might lead toexcessiveovertime.
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There is also the circumstance of theexcessiveovertimewhich the men have worked.
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The scheme envisaged would do away withexcessiveovertimeworked at that port.
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There are high profits, high prices, high unemployment and low pay, low productivity andexcessiveovertime.
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Nor are those differences largely accounted for byexcessiveovertime.
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Undeniably there isexcessiveovertimeworking for disciplinary and other essential staff.
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It means that there is no control ofexcessiveovertime, which would be possible by proper use of a payroll tax on the whole payroll.
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The commission has been starved of staff to such an extent that civil servants recently struck against theirexcessiveovertime.
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