over night

See also: overnight

English

Adverb

over night (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of overnight.
   • 1672, Thomas Shadwell, The Miser: A Comedy, […], London: […] Thomas Collins and John Ford, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 1:

     VVhat a devil makes thee in ſo muſty a humour? Thou art as dull and dumpiſh as a fellovv that had been drunk over night vvith Ale, and had done nothing but drunk Coffee, talked Politicks, and read Gazettes all this morning.

   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, “The memoirs of a lady of quality”, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC, page 170:

     On the ſecond day of my impriſonment, I was viſited by the duke of L⁠—⁠—, a friend of my lord, who found me ſitting upon a trunk, in a poor little dining-room filled with lumber, and lighted with two bits of tallow-candle, which had been left over night.

   • 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “A Raid on the Stale-beer Dives”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 77:

     Huddled together in loathsome files, they squat there over night, or until an inquisitive policeman breaks up the congregation with his club, which in Mulberry Street has always free swing.

   • 1919 November 14, “The Screen”, in The Evening Nonpareil, volume XIV, number 167, Council Bluffs, Ia., page 8, column 3:

     Over night from chaperon of a nasty tempered cavalry horse to breakfastmate of the colonel of the regiment, is Sergeant Bill Gray’s record in “Twenty-three and a Half Hours’ Leave.”

   • 1987 March 29 – April 4, Kim Westheimer, “[News Notes] homeless women & children sit-in”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 36, Boston, Mass.: Bromfield Street Educational Foundation, Inc., →ISSN, page 4, column 3:

     Over 200 homeless women and children sat-in over night at the state house to protest inadequate state funding for Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC).

   • 2009 July, Confederation of Tourism and Hospitality, “Forms of payment and security”, in CTH Diploma in Tourism/Hotel Management: Finance for Tourism and Hospitality, Study Guide, London: BPP Learning Media, →ISBN, page 99:

     This commonsense approach would indicate that monies should be paid into a bank as soon as possible for security reasons if nothing else. This is why most banks operate night safe systems as many organisations prefer to deposit their daily takings each evening rather than running the risk of having the cash on the premises over night.