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overstay

/oh-ver-stey/US // ˌoʊ vərˈsteɪ //UK // (ˌəʊvəˈsteɪ) //

滞留,逾期居留,逾期不归,滞留时间

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to stay beyond the time, limit, or duration of; outstay: to overstay one's welcome.
    • : Finance. to remain in beyond the point where a sale would have yielded the greatest profit.

Examples

  • During the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s, most Haitians were coming on student visas or tourist visas, and then if they didn’t have authorization to stay, they were overstaying their visa.

  • Under the registry, if an immigrant has been living in the US since before a certain date, they are eligible to apply for permanent residence under federal law, regardless of whether they overstayed a visa or entered the US without authorization.

  • The administration argued that TPS was not designed to grant long-term residency to foreigners who may have arrived illegally or overstayed their visas and that the “extraordinary conditions” that brought them to the country no longer existed.

  • In the heavily redacted email, the officer said they are pursuing a “straight-up Pleasure Visitor” accused of overstaying their visa, and that a search of unspecified utility records had showed that the target had “recently departed” from an address.

  • If they don’t leave their homes within 10 days of getting a notice from their landlords, they can be charged with a misdemeanor and fined for each day they overstay.

  • Some overstay their visas and some, he says, possibly arrive pregnant.

  • By often-cited estimate, fully one-quarter of illegal immigrants arrive legally, but then overstay their visas.

  • Once there are “boots on the ground,” they might get caught in the crossfire and overstay their welcome.

  • The senior official also worries that the Americans could overstay their welcome.

  • Still, he says, “you can overstay your welcome at the pinnacle.”

  • If I overstay my time I do not give myself worry—I know that she will understand that there are contingencies.

  • And if they do not, one does not overstay one's visa in the Soviet Union.

  • In three hours the vessel, not to overstay the bounds of neutral hospitality, returned to the ocean.

  • It will be readily believed that George Bertram did not overstay the three months.

  • If you overstay the limit and cannot return, you will be decontaminated just as we must be when we return to our own people.