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timekeeper
[tahym-kee-per]
noun
an official appointed to time, times, regulate, and record the duration of a sports contest or its component parts, as to give the official time times of a race, assure that a round of boxing is ended exactly on time, times, or announce to football, basketball, hockey, etc., teams the amount of time times left to play.
a timepiece.
This watch is a good timekeeper.
a person employed to keep account of the hours of work done by others.
timekeeper
/ ˈٲɪˌ쾱ːə /
noun
a person or thing that keeps or records time
an employee who maintains a record of the hours worked by the other employees
a device for indicating time; timepiece
an employee with respect to his or her record of punctuality
a good timekeeper
Other Word Forms
- timekeeping noun
- ˈپˌ辱Բ noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of timekeeper1
Example Sentences
By undermining the pitcher’s authority on how the innings flow, the timekeeper shortens a game’s duration.
In 1967, the world's timekeepers, an intergovernmental body called the General Conference on Weights and Measures, agreed to define time using atomic clocks, rather than by the Earth's rotation.
On one level, a main timekeeper, head judge and team leader scrutinize footage from the main camera.
Scientists use tiny minerals called zircons as geologic timekeepers.
The effect is that global timekeepers may need to subtract a second from our clocks later than would otherwise have been the case.
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