CLOCK-WATCHING

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (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)

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