double time
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3.7
- noun
- /ˈdʌbəl taɪm/
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pago doble
- Instead, nonexempt employees will be entitled to one and one-half times their regular rate of pay for all hours worked over 40 in a workweek and double time for all hours worked in excess of 12 in a workday.
- double time pay
- double time for overtime
Examples
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After working all night, she received double time for her overtime hours.
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I'll pay double time.
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Yeah, but it's double time, and I could really use the cash.
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Pay double time on that pipeline.
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In BC, it's boosted to double time if working more than 12 hours in a single day.
Blog text (15) -
Double time is to be paid to any employee working more than 9 hours in a day or 48 hours in a week.
Blog text (15) -
Dr. Sun's followers would need to work double time to reconstruct a printing press.
Fiction book (1997) -
One of the female counselors from the Admin building, who had also put in for this shift, said that the counselors would get double-time pay from their supervisors because the supervisors ranked this as hazardous duty.
Fiction book (1997) -
During the holiday season, employees earn double time for extra shifts at the store.
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On holidays, many workers are compensated with double time for their efforts.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'at twice the normal speed' is directly compositional from 'double' (twice/twofold) + 'time' (tempo/pace), so a learner who knows both words can readily infer the MWE's sense. Although 'time' can have a specialized musical sense, the notion of tempo/pace is common cross-linguistically and follows a regular English pattern (adjective + time → rate), making this expression transparent to B1 learners.
Etymology
Double time may come from old pay rules where double means twice and time meant paid hours. If you worked extra and were paid two times your usual 'time', people called that double time, so it means 'twice the pay'.