clock in

1. Begin work, as in She clocked in late again. Also, clock out, end work, as in Please wait for me; I forgot to clock out. The allusion here is to punching a time clock, a device that punches the time on a card to record when an employee arrives and departs. [Late 1800s]

Example Sentences

Yet I’m hard-pressed to find anyone who’s truly excited about devoting half a day to see the next installment, which clocks in at 3 hours and 12 minutes.

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Essential workers, from doctors to grocery-store clerks, risked their and their family’s health to clock in.

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Those who move here can stretch their dollars further, too, as the cost of living in Virginia Beach clocks in lower than it does in other Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern cities.

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Annual inflation clocked in at 3% in September compared with a year earlier, better than the most recent expectations.

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New York followed that up by going three-and-out, eating up little more than a minute of clock in the process.

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