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clock watcher

clock watcher is the alternative spelling of clock-watcher.

Meaning of clock-watcher

Noun

clock-watcher (plural clock-watchers)

  1. A person who is eager for time to pass (e.g., at work or school), especially when faced with an undesirable task.
    • The teacher had a heart-to-heart talk with the student who was a clock-watcher, stressing the importance of putting his mind to his schoolwork.

Forms of clock watcher

pluralclock watchers

Questions about clock watcher

What is clock watcher the alternative spelling of?
Clock watcher is the alternative spelling of clock-watcher.

Words near clock watcher in the dictionary

  1. clock tower
  2. clock towers
  3. clock up
  4. clock vine
  5. clock vines
  6. clock watcher
  7. clock watchers
  8. clock wipe
  9. clock wipes
  10. clock-face timetable
  11. clock-face timetables

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clock watcher (page history and authors); clock-watcher (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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