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Overstay

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To stay beyond the set limits or expected duration of; outstay: The guests overstayed their welcome.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To remain present after the agreed or appropriate departure time.

v. To remain present beyond the limits of.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To stay beyond the time or the limits of.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To stay or delay beyond; stay beyond the limits or duration of: as, to overstay one's time.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. stay too long

Word Usage

"Right, but the loophole is the visa overstay, which is not the same as keeping out people we don't want to enter under any circumstances by denying them even a transit visa."

Verb Form

overstayed overstaying overstays

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

stay bide abide

Form

overstayed overstaid overstaying

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

outstay

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

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