0 If you are paid double time, you are paid twice the usual amount for the time that you spend working, usually because you are working at the weekend or on an official holiday. If you work double time, you work twice as long as normal.
1 a rhythm that is played at twice the speed of a previous one:
2 If soldiers, etc. march in double time, they run slowly rather than walk.
He says he'll have it up in two months and ready to open, if he has to make the men work double time.
Harmonisation would make us put our clocks back, if we did not move to single—double time at that date.
Rocky's flow throughout the mixtape is tempered, and his delivery ranges from nonchalant rhymes to forceful double time.
The trouble is that the premise of double time being a universal standard simply does not hold true.
For example, some pay double time for overtime, some pay time and a half, and others do not pay for overtime. 31.
However, when disregarding the stochastic element, ignoring the double time scale and replacing the model (1) with a biomass model, the basic economic trade-off may be illustrated.
Voluntary overtime often has the advantage of very good wages of time and a half or weekend working at double time.
The small print is not about double time and not about protection for workers.
