clock off/out

phrasal verb

clocked off/out; clocking off/out; clocks off/out

chiefly British

: to record on a special card the time that one stops working

What time did you clock off yesterday?

I clocked out 10 minutes early.

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Some companies in Switzerland are now requiring workers to clock out for their bathroom breaks due to a loophole in the country’s labor laws. —

Lindsey Leake, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2024 Pittsburgh opted to run the clock out rather than score from the Chargers 1 in the final seconds as Acrisure Stadium erupted after the kind of victory that followed the blueprint of how longtime Steelers coach Mike Tomlin expects to win games in 2024. —

Will Graves, Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2024 This means creating a culture where employees clock out on time, use their vacation days and aren’t expected to take work home with them. —

Erik Pham, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024 The vehicle misfired in orbit, a symptom of software problems that included a coding error that set an internal clock off by 11 hours. —

Jackie Wattles, CNN, 19 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for clock off/out

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