Definition of "overstay" []

• To stay beyond the set limits or expected duration of; outstay: The guests overstayed their welcome. (verb-transitive)

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• "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."
• "The decision to take him into custody on August 15, 2001, on the INS "overstay" charge was a deliberate one to counter that threat and was based on the agents 'reasonable suspicions."
• "You will wonder perhaps why I "overstay," since I frankly admit that I'm "fed up" with too much scenery and too much information."