timekeeper
noun
time·keep·er
ˈtīm-ˌkē-pər 
1
: a person appointed to mark and announce the time in an athletic game or contest
2
3
: a clerk who keeps records of the time worked by employees
Examples of timekeeper in a Sentence
The timekeeper forgot to stop the clock during the team's last time-out.
the museum includes some ancient water clocks and sundials in its collection of historical timekeepers
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How Cells Keep Time When Johnson entered graduate school in the 1970s, scientists knew that circadian clocks — organisms’ internal timekeepers for the day-night cycle — are ubiquitous in multicellular plants and animals.
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Elizabeth Landau, quantamagazine.org, 11 Oct. 2024
Like my wife, the world’s timekeepers have been forced to adjust their clocks, adding thirty-seven leap seconds since 1972.
—Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2024
Tennis’s lucrative relationship with the luxury sector—one which began in 1978, when Rolex became the official timekeeper of Wimbledon—has gone quite literally meteoric.
—Nick Scott, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2024
After that, timekeepers might agree to a fix every 20 years or perhaps every 100.
—Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
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Elizabeth Landau, quantamagazine.org, 11 Oct. 2024
Like my wife, the world’s timekeepers have been forced to adjust their clocks, adding thirty-seven leap seconds since 1972.
—Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2024
Tennis’s lucrative relationship with the luxury sector—one which began in 1978, when Rolex became the official timekeeper of Wimbledon—has gone quite literally meteoric.
—Nick Scott, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2024
After that, timekeepers might agree to a fix every 20 years or perhaps every 100.
—Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
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timekeeper
noun
time·keep·er
ˈtīm-ˌkē-pər
1
: a clerk who keeps records of the time worked by employees
2
: an official who keeps track of the playing time in a sports contest
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