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Tie-breaking period
Answer for the clue "Tie-breaking period ", 8 letters:
overtime
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Word definitions for overtime in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Overtime or extra time is an additional period of play specified under the rules of a sport to bring a game to a decision and avoid declaring the match a tie or draw where the scores are the same. In most sports, this extra period is only played if the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"time above the regular hours of work," 1846, from over- + time (n.). Sporting sense first attested 1921, in an ice hockey context.
Usage examples of overtime.
The luckless shaven-haired monkey or rat, guinea pig or dog bent on renouncing the laboratory world for ever found itself opening its eyes on it once more from the antiseptically scrubbed floor of its cage, its drinking vessel freshly charged, its dressings ingeniously barred from investigation, its recovery a command - even, if necessary, its benefactor would minister long hours overtime to make sure it was carried out.
One of the Land craft had made it back to Bassin du Sud with her pumps running overtime, and several of the others had taken damage.
Those screwing contractors been trying to fix and patch up shit and I had to earn five weeks of overtime in two weeks.
Madam Sealer, provided Boss Watts authorizes both all my overtime hours, and another supervisor to take over my routine duties.
The closest I ever got to ancient Egypt was doing a little overtime at the Tut exhibit.
Milo had figured the guy for a late-sleeping pension-sniffing goldbrick and turned out the sonofabitch had been working overtime, doing a solo act, and producing.
All those poor sods falling over each other searching the woods and running up our overtime bill have been wasting their time.
Copley, who, by an altogether exceptional accident, was left working overtime upon a rush series of cut-price advertisements for Jamboree Jellies.
The only people at Mercer Meats now would be the overtime cleaning crew.
Two men, working overtime, and offloading a truck, had noticed the wheeled goddess approaching and had staged a mock attack, rushing at the bicycle with outstretched hungry hands.
Network camera and sound techs earn incredible overtime for staying in the field with a campaign over long periods.
When Peter summoned Flora and issued instructions that the overtime be paid, the look of devotion on Booker TA face had been embarrassing.
There were the forbidden cokes and what I gave you, but mostly it was your subconscious again, working overtime, preparing you for it with a kind of morbid concentration of size.
Claire caught up just as the cold air got him back to normal: Krugman the Commie on a hot date, Upshaw the Homicide cop on overtime.
They've kept the cameras clicking, kept those faxes humming, swapped that email, run those photocopiers on overtime, licked envelopes and spent small fortunes on airfare and long distance.