EXTRA TIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does extra time mean? 

• EXTRA TIME (noun)
  The noun EXTRA TIME has 1 sense:

1. playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie

  Familiarity information: EXTRA TIME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXTRA TIME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

extra time; overtime

Hypernyms ("extra time" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "extra time"):

extra innings (overtime play until one team is ahead at the end of an inning; e.g. baseball)

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

tiebreaker (overtime play in order to break a tie; e.g. tennis and soccer)

sudden death ((sports) overtime in which play is stopped as soon as one contestant scores; e.g. football and golf)

Holonyms ("extra time" is a part of...):

athletic game (a game involving athletic activity)

 Context examples 

If we subtract the time Mercury is retrograde from Mars’ tour and add a little extra time beyond the day Mercury goes direct, I feel your best time to make home-related decisions would be next month from March 11 (a lovely day when the Sun and Jupiter will be in sync) to March 30.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)