CLOCK IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clock in mean? 

• CLOCK IN (verb)
  The verb CLOCK IN has 1 sense:

1. register one's arrival at work

  Familiarity information: CLOCK IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLOCK IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Register one's arrival at work

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

clock in; clock on; punch in

Hypernyms (to "clock in" is one way to...):

enter; put down; record (make a record of; set down in permanent form)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Antonym:

clock out (register one's departure from work)

 Context examples 

We travelled very slowly all night, and did not get into Yarmouth before nine or ten o'clock in the morning.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I began this desperate voyage on February 15, 1714–15, at nine o’clock in the morning.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The landlady informed me that he had left the house shortly after eight o’clock in the morning.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is nearly four o'clock in the afternoon, sir.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

About three o'clock in the afternoon we came to a very steep rapid, more than a mile long—the very one in which Professor Challenger had suffered disaster upon his first journey.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It might have been about three o'clock in the morning when Alleyne was aroused from a troubled sleep by a low cry or exclamation.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, last night about ten o’clock in ’e comes into my bar, and the three bloodiest rogues in London at ’is ’eels.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The woman in the shop answered me without hesitation that it was to be at eight o’clock in the morning.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They danced on till three o’clock in the morning, and then all their shoes were worn out, so that they were obliged to leave off.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I was very much surprised therefore, when yesterday, about three o’clock in the afternoon, he walked into my office in the city.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)