| Dictionary: time and a half |
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| Business Dictionary: Time-And-A-Half |
Payment of one and a half times the worker's regular hourly wage for work beyond 40 hours per week to certain categories of workers. Time-and-a-half payments are required by the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act.
| Idioms: time and a half |
A rate of pay for overtime work that is one and one-half times higher than the regular hourly wage, as in I don't mind working Sunday so long as I get time and a half. This expression uses time in the sense of "the number of hours worked." [c. 1885]
| Word Tutor: half-time |
| Translations: Half-time |
Dansk (Danish)
n. - halvleg, halv tid, pause, deltid
Français (French)
n. - repos, (Sport) mi-temps
Deutsch (German)
n. - Halbzeit, Kurzarbeit
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (αθλοπ.) ημιχρόνιο
Italiano (Italian)
intervallo, orari ridotto
Português (Portuguese)
n. - meio-tempo (m)
Русский (Russian)
неполная рабочая неделя, конец тайма
Español (Spanish)
n. - entretiempo, descanso
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - halvtid
中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
半工制
中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 半工制
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 반일근무, 반일급, 중간 휴식(하프타임)
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 半日労働, ハーフタイム
adj. - 半日制の
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - מחצית, הפסקה, חצי משרה
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