clock in

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To clock in is to record the moment you start work. A card in a machine, or a badge on a reader.

The system exists to record hours worked, and clocking in and clocking out bracket a shift. American English says punch in. There is a figurative use in reporting, since a performance or a time that clocks in at a figure means it comes to that. The phrase clock-watching describes somebody more interested in the finishing time than the work, which is a real accusation.

Definitions of clock in

1phraseclock inTo register your arrival at work.B2
“You have to clock in before half past eight.”

Practised in A Man Called Ove, Office & Admin

First appears in chapter 2 of A Man Called Ove.

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clock in

phraseB2Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

To clock in is to record the moment you start work. A card in a machine, or a badge on a reader.

Definitions of clock in

1phraseclock inTo register your arrival at work.B2
“You have to clock in before half past eight.”

Practised in A Man Called Ove, Office & Admin

First appears in chapter 2 of A Man Called Ove.

Practise this word