CLOCK-WATCHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clock-watching mean? 

• CLOCK-WATCHING (noun)
  The noun CLOCK-WATCHING has 1 sense:

1. paying excessive attention to the clock (in anticipation of stopping work)

  Familiarity information: CLOCK-WATCHING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLOCK-WATCHING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Paying excessive attention to the clock (in anticipation of stopping work)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("clock-watching" is a kind of...):

attending; attention (the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others)