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clock up

clock up verb: to accumulate (an amount of time or experience).

Verb

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

  1. (figuratively, transitive) To accumulate (an amount of time or experience).
    • To become a pilot, you must clock up at least 1,000 hours flying time.
    • Only Gresley's 'A3s' and the InterCity 125s, both of which clocked up over 40 years of ECML service, can boast longer careers. But none were pushed as hard, for as long, as the Class 91s and Mk 4s have been over the past three decades.2022 September 21, Ben Jones, “IC225s: the Electras go gliding on”, in RAIL, number 966, page 38
  2. (UK, figuratively, transitive) To cover (a distance) over time.
    • My car has clocked up over 5,000 miles in the last month

Forms of clock up

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

Questions about clock up

What does clock up mean?
Clock up means to accumulate (an amount of time or experience).
What part of speech is clock up?
Clock up is a verb.
What is the past tense of clock up?
The past tense of clock up is clocked up.

Words near clock up in the dictionary

  1. clock system
  2. clock the tea
  3. clock time
  4. clock tower
  5. clock towers
  6. clock up
  7. clock vine
  8. clock vines
  9. clock watcher
  10. clock watchers
  11. clock wipe

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