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

Part of me thinks he was serious when he told me he’s going to keep a time sheet of the time he spends with his family.

From Forbes ● Jun. 15, 2015

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