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clock off

clock off verb: to leave work, especially by recording the leaving time on a machine.

Verb

clock off (third-person singular simple present clocks off, present participle clocking off, simple past and past participle clocked off)

  1. (informal, intransitive) to leave work, especially by recording the leaving time on a machine
    • Most of the staff have already clocked off for the night, you should do the same.
    • Frenchman wins the 'legal right to be boring at work' after being mocked by his colleagues for not wanting to head out to the pub after clocking off2022 November 24, T. Brown, “Frenchman wins the 'legal right to be boring at work'”, in Daily Mail Online, Associated Newspapers, retrieved 27 Nov 2022
    Synonyms:
    clock out, punch out

Synonyms of clock off

Forms of clock off

third-person singular presentclocks off
present participleclocking off
past participleclocked off
pastclocked off

Questions about clock off

What does clock off mean?
Clock off means to leave work, especially by recording the leaving time on a machine.
What part of speech is clock off?
Clock off is a verb.
What is the past tense of clock off?
The past tense of clock off is clocked off.

Words near clock off in the dictionary

  1. clock jack
  2. clock jacks
  3. clock key
  4. clock move
  5. clock of the mountains
  6. clock off
  7. clock on
  8. clock onto
  9. clock out
  10. clock paradox
  11. clock paradoxes

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