clock-watching

1. 1.

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

   Broaderattention

Questions about clock-watching

What does clock-watching mean?

clock-watching means "paying excessive attention to the clock (in anticipation of stopping work)".

How many syllables are in clock-watching?

clock-watching has 3 syllables: cloc-k-wat-ching. The stress falls on "cloc".

Is clock-watching a common word?

clock-watching 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.