compensatory time

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   time off that is granted to a worker as compensation for working overtime

   Broadertime off

Questions about compensatory time

What does compensatory time mean?

compensatory time means "time off that is granted to a worker as compensation for working overtime".

Is compensatory time a common word?

compensatory time is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.