Overtime and Sudden death

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Overtime

Overtime noun - Work done in addition to regular working hours.
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Sudden death and overtime are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sudden death" instead a noun "Overtime".

Sudden death

Sudden death noun - (sports) overtime in which play is stopped as soon as one contestant scores; e.g. football and golf.
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Overtime and sudden death are semantically related. You can use "Overtime" instead a noun phrase "Sudden death".

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  • Useful Notes / National Football League He led them to victory in the "greatest game ever played", a 1958 playoff against the New York Giants that featured the first "sudden death" overtime.
    Source: Useful Notes / National Football League
  • To put it in perspective, on a card with seven regular matches and one planned sudden death for third place, there ended up being seven sudden deaths, with the planned one itself going into "overtime".
    Source: Wrestling / AAA
  • Down to the Last Play The New England Revolution scored 8 minutes into the second overtime to go up 1-0, but since it was not sudden death like many sports, the Houston Dynamo had time to score the tying goal - and did, just over a minute later.
    Source: Down to the Last Play
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