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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
extra time
noun
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▪ As if the extra time would allow them to come up with a thoughtful answer.
▪ Childless couples may use their extra time for leisure and their extra money for consumption rather than for investment.
▪ If she needed extra time, she could catch up on her assignments on weekends.
▪ If you have not had time to object, contact the planning officer and ask for extra time.
▪ It was 17 legs all and so Rod and Ronnie were thrust into extra time.
▪ It was still 1-1 after extra time, so cue the dreaded penalty shootout.
▪ The Gills were staring at a second successive defeat in the final with just seven minutes of extra time remaining.
▪ The match was finally settled two minutes into extra time when St Albans won possession in defence and broke quickly.
Wiktionary
extra time

n. (context football English) an additional period played at the end of some games of football if the score is tied after the two halves of play

WordNet
extra time

n. playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie [syn: overtime] [ant: regulation time]

Usage examples of "extra time".

Snatch the extra time out of bits of history that are too far ahead and shove it into the bits that have fallen behind!

Packs and gear went into the bottom, or up toward the bow, where Eddie had taken a little extra time to carve a crude eagle as figurehead.

I usually gave her a bit of extra time if I caught that sensitive part of her.

Part of the reason she was cruising the edge of exhaustion was all the extra time she’.

I had no real wish to visit the pleasure palaces of Copernicus, and it seemed to me that I could use the extra time to get my personal affairs in order at Irvine as the semester ended.

I used the extra time to study, but the other guys got depressed, started drinking more—.

But he also had to devote extra time to the scientific work, since Silverstein was incapable of performing his duties.

Some theorists have been exploring the possibility of incorporating extra time dimensions into string theory, but as yet the situation is inconclusive.