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  1. adj. literally Displayed on the dial of a clock (timepiece).
  2. adj. idiomatic Working at one's job; occupied in some manner during one's hours of remunerated employment.
  3. adj. idiomatic Of a taxicab, engaged for hire; displayed numerically as time or fare on the meter of a taxicab.
  4. adj. sports In the official time remaining in a game or other sporting event.
  5. adj. sports In the official time expired in a game or other sporting event.
  6. adj. of a motor vehicle Displayed numerically on the mileage or kilometric gauge.
  7. adj. Remunerated per unit of time.
  8. adv. idiomatic During one's official working hours; in or into a position of remunerated employment.

Examples

  • “His cold eyes, which were the colour of a German field uniform, flickered upward on the words, but Mr. Campion, following their gaze, saw that it rested on the clock over the jeweller’s two doors down.”

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. cuckoo clock
  2. sclk
  3. spacecraft clock time
  4. Big Ben
  5. clepsydra
  6. alarm clock
  7. electric clock
  8. system clock
  9. time clock
  10. turret clock
  11. wall clock
  12. water clock
  13. grandfather clock
  14. pendulum clock
  15. alarm
  16. hour
  17. digital clock
  18. longcase clock
  19. time of day
  20. water glass
  21. ammonia clock
  22. analog clock
  23. caesium clock
  24. chronometer
  25. regulator
  26. day-and-night
  27. counterclockwise
  28. clockwise
  29. clockwork
  30. journeyman
  31. watch-oil
  32. minute-jack
  33. o'clock
  34. porpoise-oil
  35. pull-piece
  36. clock
  37. clock-beetle
  38. clokke
  39. around-the-clock
  40. verge
  41. observation
  42. relativity
  43. snap
  44. hand
  1. jack
  2. pallet
  3. pendulum
  4. synchronize
  5. time-globe
  6. warning-piece
  7. mainspring
  8. isochronon
  9. electro-chronograph
  10. strike
  11. dor
  12. mean time
  13. dingdong
  14. hydroscope
  15. set
  16. contraclockwise
  17. count-wheel
  18. fly
  19. hammer
  20. hawksbill
  21. hertz
  22. horologe
  23. index hand
  24. clocklike
  25. dial-recorder
  26. gallows-tool
  27. index-band
  28. key-recorder
  29. pendulum-wheel
  30. pillar-screw
  31. pinion-shaft
  32. pin-tooth
  33. winder-hole
  34. telegraph-clock
  35. ticking
  36. timepiece
  37. tower-clock
  38. turn-bench
  39. wainscot-clock
  40. wall-clock
  41. watch-stand
  42. wheel-cutting
  43. mantel-clock
  44. minute-clock
  1. minute hand
  2. pallet-arbor
  3. pendule
  4. pendulum-wire
  5. quarter-boys
  6. rack-hook
  7. racktail
  8. scape-wheel
  9. second-hand
  10. strike-or-silent
  11. æonologe
  12. card-recorder
  13. checkwork
  14. clock-contact
  15. clock-hammer
  16. Sanctam
  17. half-hour
  18. luge
  19. astronomical clock
  20. balance wheel
  21. fusee
  22. harmonic motion
  23. barillet
  24. bonsilate
  25. calendar-clock
  26. cannon-pinion
  27. center-second
  28. chronobarometer
  29. chronopher
  30. clock-alarm
  31. clock-case
  32. clock-face
  33. clock-stocking
  34. clock-tower
  35. clock-turret
  36. clock-watch
  37. gathering-pallet
  38. gin
  39. going-wheel
  40. handless
  41. hour-plate
  42. knock
  43. larum
  44. lifting-piece
  1. Haley
  2. Lloyd
  3. watchful
  4. unadjusted
  5. timecard
  6. snook
  7. Bergsonism
  8. time dilation
  9. sweep-second hand
  10. reset
  11. ticktock
  12. ticktack
  13. chronotherapeutics
  14. banjo clock
  15. balance
  16. beat of a watch
  17. cannon pinion
  18. ship's clock
  19. sidereal clock
  20. cock
  21. computer
  22. equation of time
  23. finger
  24. flying pinion
  25. a
  26. synchronous operation
  27. tictac
  28. tocktact
  29. winder
  30. hairspring
  31. Pyle
  32. time zone
  33. hour hand
  34. clock radio
  35. second hand
  36. leap second
  37. quarter-hour
  38. postmodern
  39. stop
  40. wind
  41. ring
  42. forward
  43. key
  44. movement
  1. organizer
  2. orrery
  3. PDA
  4. personal digital assistant
  5. personal organiser
  6. personal organizer
  7. synchronous
  8. tick
  9. Time
  10. ahead
  11. chime
  12. clunk
  13. contraction
  14. daily
  15. crystal
  16. dial
  17. digital
  18. fast
  19. face
  20. say
  21. position
  22. piece
  23. slow
  24. measured
  25. survive
  26. telltale
  27. repeater
  28. tick-tock
  29. beat
  30. fusee drive
  31. little hand
  32. organiser
  33. anticlockwise
  34. asynchronous
  35. clock dial
  36. clock face
  37. clock time
  38. clock tower
  39. clock-watching
  40. clockwork universe
  41. run
  42. nonstop
  43. compensation pendulum
  44. snail
  1. stricken

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