clock watcher

1. 1.

   a worker preoccupied with the arrival of quitting time

   Broaderidler

Questions about clock watcher

What does clock watcher mean?

clock watcher means "a worker preoccupied with the arrival of quitting time".

Is clock watcher a common word?

clock watcher is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.