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clock-watcher

someone -- a worker or a student -- who is always looking at the clock, anticipating when something will be over. There are four clock-watchers in our office. People who don't like their jobs can turn into clockwatchers.

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In and near William Brown Street, to visit the Walker, apart from charges there is a two-hour limit, which makes a visit to an exhibition a clock-watching experience. Letter: Free for all by Daily Post (Liverpool, England) Whether you want to create an impact with a fashionable retro timepiece or always be on time with a bang-up-to-date digital clock, there are hundreds of styles out there to choose from to make clock-watching a pleasure. Pleasures of clock watching by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England) If the UK cannot replicate Australia, where broadcaster Sky Channel reacts to changing circumstances by juggling off-times among its daily host of races, the least we can expect of local stewards, if they continue to have the last word, is that they are trained to pay more attention to the consequences of their clock-watching actions. Off-times must mean more by The Racing Post (London, England)			climb on climb on high horse climb out climb the wall climb up climbing the walls cling cling on on by fingernails cling on on by your fingertips cling to cling together clip clip from clip on clip out of clip wings cloak cloak in secrecy cloak-and-dagger clock clock at clock in clock out clock up clock-watcher clock-watching clockwork clog clog up clog with close close a deal close a sale close around close as two coats of paint close at hand close call close chewer and a tight spitter close down close down and shut down close enough for government work close enough to use the same toothpick close eyes to close in close in for the kill close off close on Close only counts in horseshoes close out close out of close ranks			Clock Time Counter clock tower clock tower Clock Tower, Palace of Westminster Clock Tower, Palace of Westminster Clock towers clock track Clock Tree Synthesis clock tripling clock up clock up Clock wars clock watch clock watcher Clock work Clock work Clock works Clock works Clock, Astronomical Clock, Astronomical Clock-Controlled Shift Register clock-doubled Clock-face Clock-Synchronous Serial IO clock-tripled clock-watch clock-watcher clock-watcher clock-watchers clock-watchers clock-watching Clock/calendar Clock/calendar Clock/calendar clocked clocked clocked clocked Clocked CMOS clocked flip-flop Clocked High Energy Firing Unit Clocked logic clocked out clocked out clocked out Clocked sequential system Clocked sequential systems clocker clocker clocker clocker Clockface clocking clocking clocking clocking clocking out clocking out clocking out clockless computing Clocklike

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clock-watcher (redirected from clock-watching)

clock-watcher
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