time sheet

American  

noun

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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Etymology

Origin of time sheet

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

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

These Venetian glasses were all small, because at that time sheet glass was blown by the mouth of man, like bottles, vases, etc., and therefore it was impossible to make them large.

From Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy by Stockton, Frank Richard