time sheet

American  

noun

• time sheets
  plural

1. a sheet or card recording the hours worked by an employee, made especially for payroll purposes.

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time sheet British  

noun

1. a card on which are recorded the hours spent working by an employee or employees

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• time sheets
  plural

Etymology

Origin of time sheet

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

time sheet

She got her time sheet stamped for the spring and was free to retreat back to New York or Palm Beach until she had some new NFTs to sell, I assumed.

From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2026

Supervisors who approve an officer’s time sheet don’t have access to overtime records.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2021

“He said ‘no, that’s not true, I authorized his time sheet two days ago.’”

From The Guardian ● May 2, 2018

And there’s a bonus: “I don’t have to fill out a time sheet every day, which I had done for 30 years.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2017

You make out yer time sheet, and go to the office at nine o'clock and git yer money; we can't afford to pay you for playing the fool.'

From The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell