Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A card, either filled out by an employee or stamped by a time clock, recording the employee's starting and quitting times each work day.
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- noun A
card , stamped by atime clock , thatrecords thetimes when anemployee starts and stopswork
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a card recording an employee's starting and quitting times each work day
- noun a card used with a time clock to record an employee's starting and quitting times each day
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Examples
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Nobody has suggested Deters use his office as the "timecard" police.
Copout or Coverup? Nathaniel Livingston 2005
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Nobody has suggested Deters use his office as the "timecard" police.
Archive 2005-01-01 Nathaniel Livingston 2005
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Box Elder County auditor keeping online 'timecard'
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Hate to change the subject T, but could you take a frickin 'bloggin' break and do up the timecard due last week?
Tyler finds himself a new hobby Tyler 2009
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What works for me when I have perishables that need to be refrigerated is I jot it on a sticky note and stick it onto my timecard.
Hints From Heloise washingtonpost.com 2010
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Your leave balance in WebTADS includes deductions for leave you have entered on your timecard for the period for which you are in the process of filing out your timecard, even before it is approved by your supervisor.
WebTADS Does Not Know How Much Leave You Have - NASA Watch 2009
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The upper/educated classes prided themselves on not being "slaves" to the clock like the working man on a timecard.
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This just leads to timecard ammendment which causes more work for all involved.
WebTADS Does Not Know How Much Leave You Have - NASA Watch 2009
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With the national unemployment rate stuck at nearly 10 percent, the pool of holiday job seekers has broadened beyond the stereotypical teenagers padding their allowances to include people like Sylvester, who once had professional careers and thought their days of punching a timecard were over.
Hopes of holiday hires hinge on consumer spending Ylan Q. Mui 2010
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With the national unemployment rate stuck at nearly 10 percent, the pool of holiday job seekers has broadened beyond the stereotypical teenagers padding their allowances to include people like Sylvester, who once had professional careers and thought their days of punching a timecard were over.
On the sales floor, wondering what Santa will bring Ylan Q. Mui 2010
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