overstay

overstay

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ stay.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪ

Verb

overstay (third-person singular simple present overstays, present participle overstaying, simple past and past participle overstayed)

1. (intransitive) To remain present after the agreed or appropriate departure time.
2. (transitive) To remain present beyond the limits of.
   • 2022 August 24, Tassanee Vejpongsa & Grant Peck, “Thai court suspends PM Prayuth pending ruling on term limit”, in The Washington Post‎, retrieved 2022-08-24:

     Thailand’s Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday that Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha must suspend his active duties while the court decides whether he has overstayed his legal term in office.

   He overstayed his welcome.

Derived terms

• overstay one's welcome

Translations

remain present after the agreed or appropriate time

Bulgarian: заседявам се (zasedjavam se) Chinese: Mandarin: 呆得太久 (dāi de tài jiǔ), (overstay one's visa) 逾期停留 (yúqī tíngliú) Dutch: langer blijven dan Finnish: ylittää aikansa Hungarian: (a megengedettnél, az engedélyezettnél) tovább marad, (technical) túltartózkodik

Noun

overstay (plural overstays)

1. The act of staying too long.
   • 2011, Richard M. Stana, Overstay Enforcement

     For example, if USCIS approves a change of status or extension of stay for a nonimmigrant, the alien may be authorized to remain in the country beyond his or her original period of admission without qualifying as an overstay.

Anagrams

• stay over, stayover