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Definition of Clock watcher
1. Noun. A worker preoccupied with the arrival of quitting time.
Definition of Clock watcher
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of clock-watcher) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clock Watcher
Literary usage of Clock watcher
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Phonographic Magazine and National Shorthand Reporter by Jerome Bird Howard (1904)
"Therefore, don't be A clock-watcher. Don't imagine that, because your ... And when
you once earn the reputation of a clock-watcher ant^ become famous for ..."
2. The Book of Business Etiquette by Nella Braddy Henney (1922)
"... mere clock watcher never gets anywhere. Forget the clock and become absorbed
in your job. Learn to love it." The position of secretary is a responsible ..."
3. The American Language: An Inquiry Into the Development of English in the by Henry Louis Mencken (1921)
"... boob, mutt, gas (empty talk), geezer, piker, baggage- smasher, hash-slinger,
clock-watcher, four-flusher, coffin-nail, chin- music, batty and one-horse. ..."
4. Railroad Freight Transportation by Leonor Fresnel Loree (1922)
"... then walked on the return journey 18 miles from Darlington to Durham.
What the "eight hour clock-watcher" might call a full day's work. ..."
5. The U Book: Selling One's Self from $10 a Week to $100,000 a Year by Nilas Oran Shively (1917)
"Many of them belong to the clock-watcher class and have no more of a chance for
success than the tramp who makes his home in a municipal soup-house. ..."
6. The American Girl by Winifred Buck (1917)
"Never be a clock watcher, wondering half the afternoon if it isn't yet time to
go home. If you know that by staying beyond closing time you can finish an ..."
7. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons: Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben by Henry Charles Mahoney, Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot (1917)
"He was no respecter of time, neither did he emulate his military colleague in
being a clock-watcher. He informed us that he was at our disposal at any hour ..."
8. Factory Costs: A Work of Reference for Cost Accountants and Factory Managers by Frank Erastus Webner (1911)
"... the poor workman who wastes both time and material; the man who holds back
his output; the clock-watcher who refrains from taking up the next job for ..."
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