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timesheet

nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: timesheets

A timesheet is the record of hours worked on each task. Fill in the timesheet, submit your timesheet, a weekly timesheet.

In firms that bill by the hour it is how money is made, which is why lawyers and consultants record time in six-minute units. Everywhere else it is the most resented piece of admin there is.

Definitions of timesheet

  1. 1nountimesheetThe record of hours worked on each task.B2

    “Remember to fill in your timesheet on Friday so you get paid for the overtime.”

timesheet is a record.

Where it comes from

Time plus sheet, from the printed sheet on which hours were once entered by hand.

From time + sheet.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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timesheet in the wild

  • One or more time cards could serve as a timesheet or provide the data to fill one.

    Time clock

  • A timesheet (or time sheet) is a method for recording the amount of a worker's time spent on each job.

    Timesheet

  • Traditionally a sheet of paper with the data arranged in tabular format, a timesheet is now often a digital document or spreadsheet.

    Timesheet

  • TSheets was an alternative to a paper timesheet or punch cards.

    TSheets

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.