Word.ws English Dictionary

time-keeping

time-keeping is the alternative form of timekeeping.

time-keeping is the present participle and gerund of time-keep.

Meaning of timekeeping

Noun

timekeeping (usually uncountable, plural timekeepings)

  1. (usually) The measurement of time, or determining what the local time is: the act or process of keeping the time.
    1. (usually) Measuring and recording the time spent by employees on the clock, including the timepoints at which they clocked in and clocked out.
  2. (usually) The quality of being punctual, keeping to a set time.
    • Timekeeping is better than on many Irish main lines; indeed, such delays as do occur are often attributable to late running of the Dublin-Sligo trains.1951 May, R. K. Kirkland, “The Cavan & Leitrim Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 343

Questions about time-keeping

What is time-keeping the alternative form of?
Time-keeping is the alternative form of timekeeping.

Words near time-keeping in the dictionary

  1. time-invariance
  2. time-invariant
  3. time-keep
  4. time-keeper
  5. time-keepers
  6. time-keeping
  7. time-keeps
  8. time-kept
  9. time-killer
  10. time-killers
  11. time-killing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: time-keeping (page history and authors); timekeeping (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “time-keeping.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/time-keeping. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.