Definitions
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- noun
continually looking at thetime to see how much longer one has towork orstudy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun paying excessive attention to the clock (in anticipation of stopping work)
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Examples
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It was dreadful--the 12-hour days, the crushing boredom, the clock-watching, the joy that I experienced as I walked out the door when the day was over.
David Murray: Working, in Chicago: An Emotional Guide for New Graduates David Murray 2011
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This year's edition offers further help for clock-watching Americans by including prep and cooking times for each recipe.
Classics Made New Aram Bakshian Jr. 2011
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It was dreadful--the 12-hour days, the crushing boredom, the clock-watching, the joy that I experienced as I walked out the door when the day was over.
David Murray: Working, in Chicago: An Emotional Guide for New Graduates David Murray 2011
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It was dreadful--the 12-hour days, the crushing boredom, the clock-watching, the joy that I experienced as I walked out the door when the day was over.
David Murray: Working, in Chicago: An Emotional Guide for New Graduates David Murray 2011
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We at the Fix are clock-watching too -- trying to figure out when we might know who will control the House and Senate after tomorrow.
"Fast Fix": Timing election night Chris Cillizza 2010
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It was dreadful--the 12-hour days, the crushing boredom, the clock-watching, the joy that I experienced as I walked out the door when the day was over.
David Murray: Working, in Chicago: An Emotional Guide for New Graduates David Murray 2011
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The collective energy of the room can build into a frenzy, unleashing brilliant ideas while everyone has a great time, or it can devolve into yet another boring, BlackBerry-checking, clock-watching drone session.
The 10 Commandments Of Brainstorming Josh Linkner 2010
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Back then, the bored young lifeguards would hover at the poolside, flirting with each other and clock-watching.
Axing free swimming will hit poor Maggie O 2010
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My muscles were at their most sore in the mornings, stiffening up while I slept, but I would prize my protesting body off the bunk and start rowing while it was still dark, resolving not to start clock-watching at least until the sun had come up.
Rowing the ATLANTIC Roz Savage 2009
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Animation is far too creative an endeavor to suffer the indignity of clock-watching.
The Extra-Hours WorkWeek Explained Steve Hulett 2009
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