Definitions

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  • noun the measurement of time, or determining what the local time is.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act or process of determining the time

Etymologies

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time +‎ keeping

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Examples

  • Clocks and Culture is a brief history of the changes wrought by and on Europe over four hundred years due to technological advances in timekeeping and the rise of a time-aware culture.

    Recommended Book on Clocks Heather McDougal 2007

  • Clocks and Culture is a brief history of the changes wrought by and on Europe over four hundred years due to technological advances in timekeeping and the rise of a time-aware culture.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Heather McDougal 2007

  • If they find mismanagement in timekeeping, they can shutdown funding you’ve already been allocated.

    Senate votes to strip ACORN of federal funding, 83-7. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009

  • He calls the timekeeping brainwork, and says he isn't used to it; and his gate lodge is so splendid that he's ashamed to use the rooms, and skulks in the scullery.

    Major Barbara George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • The distributor plans to extend the app to 11,000 U.S. merchandisers so they can record on smartphones the time they spend in each store, instead of having to call a timekeeping toll-free number.

    TechWeb 2009

  • Anchored by the ancient Drum and Bell Towers, the $73 million redevelopment will include courtyard homes for the rich, a "timekeeping" museum and an underground mall, presumably well stocked with Rolexes and Cartiers - or perhaps their more affordable counterfeit cousins.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • Anchored by the ancient Drum and Bell Towers, the $73 million redevelopment will include courtyard homes for the rich, a "timekeeping" museum and an underground mall, presumably well stocked with Rolexes and Cartiers - or perhaps their more affordable counterfeit cousins.

    NYT > Global Home 2010

  • "The very company entrusted by our city to build a timekeeping system for New York City employees has grossly mismanaged their own timekeeping and in the process overcharged city taxpayers for sums of money still to be determined."

    CityTime Honcho Gets Ax Michael Howard Saul 2011

  • Science Applications International Corp., the prime contractor on the project known as CityTime, informed city officials this week that it fired Gerard Denault , the former project manager for CityTime, for allegedly violating company policy when reporting his own timekeeping.

    CityTime Honcho Gets Ax Michael Howard Saul 2011

  • Mr. Liu called for a comprehensive investigation into other possible timekeeping violations.

    CityTime Honcho Gets Ax Michael Howard Saul 2011

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