extra time

1. 1.

   playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie

   Synonymsovertime

   Broadertime period

   Narrowerextra inningsovertime periodtiebreakersudden death

   Part ofathletic game

Questions about extra time

What does extra time mean?

extra time means "playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie".

What is another word for extra time?

Close synonyms include overtime. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is extra time a common word?

extra 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.