overtime period

1. 1.

   a period of overtime play to resolve a tie; e.g. basketball

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Questions about overtime period

What does overtime period mean?

overtime period means "a period of overtime play to resolve a tie; e.g. basketball".

Is overtime period a common word?

overtime period 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.