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clockwatcher

clockwatcher is the alternative form 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 clockwatcher

pluralclockwatchers

Questions about clockwatcher

What is clockwatcher the alternative form of?
Clockwatcher is the alternative form of clock-watcher.

Words near clockwatcher in the dictionary

  1. clockw.
  2. clockward
  3. clockware
  4. clockwatch
  5. clockwatched
  6. clockwatcher
  7. clockwatchers
  8. clockwatches
  9. clockwatching
  10. clockweight
  11. clockweights

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clockwatcher (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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