Definition of time clock
: a clock that stamps starting and quitting times on an employee's time card
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Certainly there are biological time clocks but your life's happiness does not necessarily have to begin and end with a time frame.
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If unpaid bills and time clocks were largely absent from other family sitcoms, Roseanne brought them to center stage as Roseanne and Dan work overtime and cycle through odd jobs to make ends meet.
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Such a move would have the added benefit of delaying his major league service-time clock, possibly giving the Angels an extra year of control over him before free agency.
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The fishes’ lives are dictated by Mother Nature and not a time clock as ours are.
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Similarly, another noted that time clock use seems at odds with teachers’ professional status.
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Tatis could make the jump in the second half of the season, although the Padres might wait until 2019 to start his service time clock.
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Inside the building, which looks like a church, for instance, there is a mean old commercial time clock, like a conscience, where the workmen ring in and where dwell — shades of St. John the Scribe — the Chaplin Boswells, the publicity department.
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The San Diego County registrar of voters will now work to verify the signatures on a 30-day time clock.
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First Known Use of time clock
1887
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Definition of time clock for English Language Learners
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: a special clock that is used to record the times when an employee starts and stops working
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